made an attack on pablo escobar, the cartel heads, and thought they would put the nail on the coffin by doing that, it diverse if -- diversified the trade. columbia is the u.s. effort in columbia, which is half a million in ten years is a way for us to sort of play a part in the drug war from here. militarily by doing two things, one is trying to help the columbian's fight the farc, even though they are only one the players in the drug war, and not even probably significant percentageage -- maybe maybe --a significant percentage. not more than 50%. the other method is what we do to defoliate. we spray toxic herbicide on the country side. this is something like round up. we put it in airplanes. these are american products, american airplanes, american companies doing this work. the government has let us in -- the government of columbia has agreed to let us do that. this is basically what the contractors were doing at the time. >> other, you know, -- william wood who is the american ambassador in columbia moved to afghanistan. he was a favor in afghanistan and the afghan government sai