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New York Times 25 February 2001
FACING FACTS
America Gets Candid About What Colombia Needs
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
WASHINGTON -- For nearly a year now, American officials have been
trying to tell voters why they should care about Colombia. But this
month, one architect of that campaign, the recently retired Gen.
Barry R. McCaffrey, dramatically changed the argument. He warned
that the whole of Colombia was dying. If Americans stood idle, he
said, they would be like the neighbors of Kitty Genovese, the 1964
murder victim in New York whose screams went unanswered.
"This isn't North Korea, for cripe's sake," General McCaffrey said at
a conference in Miami attended by dozens of current and former
officials who have helped draw up Colombia policy. "We like these
people. They live next door to us. And they're in trouble."
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CB: Sounds like The White Man's Burden , 2001 version. The White Man's Burden , that
paternalist , liberal creed.
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