Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe returned to Bogota this week in a state of shock. His three-day visit to Capitol Hill in Washington to win over Democrats in Congress was described by one American supporter as “catastrophic.” Colombian sources said Uribe was stunned by the ferocity of his Democratic opponents, and Vice President Francisco Santos publicly talked about cutting U.S.-Colombian ties. ~Robert Novak

There might have been less blunt ways of beginning to scupper a nasty bit of interventionist foreign policy in Latin America (Plan Colombia), but I’ll take what I can get in this case.  Mr. Novak laments the loss of an “important ally,” but for what end is Bogota an “important ally”?  To pursue the bankrupt, undesirable and, oh yes, unconstitutional drug war in Colombia.  Those who want to see interventionist foreign policy weakened, there could hardy have been a better outcome.