U.S. army probes why troops go wild in Colombia

Why, I don’t know, could it be the money?

All we need now is an S&L scandal and we’ve got the Regan years all over again.

SUMAPAZ, Colombia (Reuters) - The U.S. military is investigating what has gone wrong with its operations in Colombia, where troops have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling drugs and selling arms to far-right militias, a senior U.S. officer said on Wednesday. Gen. Bantz Craddock, commander of the U.S. military's Southern Command, said he was concerned by the recent incidents. "I have talked to the commander of the units involved. We are initiating a complete review of our procedures, our processes and our security standards," Craddock told Reuters while visiting Colombian troops on a high mountain plain above Bogota -- recently a strategic transit route for Marxist rebels -- as a Black Hawk helicopter whirred overhead. Colombian police arrested two American soldiers last week on suspicion of planning to sell stolen ammunition to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, an outlawed far-right militia group classified as "terrorist" by the United States.

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