John Mica: “this is an interesting point the gentleman raises about what had developed as an Andean strategy to stop in a very…”

“this is an interesting point the gentleman raises about what had developed as an Andean strategy to stop in a very cost-effective manner; we only spent about $200 million out of $16 billion on this whole drug effort, but we spent about $200 million down there. It has been pretty much tightened up because of the efforts of President Fujimori, who we met with when we went down there, and also because of Bolivia's effort, but we learned some interesting things in this experience. We learned first that, and we had a knock-down, drag-out fight with this administration when they destroyed the shoot-down policy. We had a policy established under the Reagan administration that, given fair warning over these air spaces, in fact, in Peru and Bolivia and Colombia, the drug dealers would be shot down, and they, in fact, were until a liberal in the Clinton administration moved from the Department of Justice, I think, to DOD, and then turned this policy upside down, and we saw a lot of these drugs coming back.”