Porter Goss: “First of all, I am not sure that everybody really understands that the FARC is not just another political opposition…”

“First of all, I am not sure that everybody really understands that the FARC is not just another political opposition group. This is a vicious guerilla band of people that this past weekend killed 26 policemen in Colombia, in one city, in Bahia del Puerto. They beheaded the chief of police and killed four children between the ages of 3 and 7, to say nothing of their mothers and other innocent victims. This is, unfortunately, routine business. This is the face of a terrorist insurrection against a democratic government. Secondly, I would like to point out, the much-discussed Rand report talking about how much more we get out of our money for treatment, that is interesting if we are talking about treatment, but we are talking about trying to stop people from becoming victims. We do not want them to become addicts. We do want to treat the addicts, but we want to stop our youth from becoming addicts by making sure there is no supply for them. That is a legitimate part of what we are about.”