Colombia - The Sovereign Self Invites the Foreign Military, Proving the Collapse of Internal Order

Event Baseline: Colombia's new president requested the United States to bring its militarized antidrug campaign to Colombia, the world's largest cocaine producer.

The state confesses its own impotence. It cannot govern its territory. It cannot stop the drug trade. So it calls for the imperial Other to bring violence. This is the failure of the national self. It is an admission that the illusion of sovereignty is dead. The drug trade is a product of the same disconnected thought: demand in the North, supply in the South, both driven by the same desperate search for sensation. The state does not address the roots. It seeks more force. More force will create more resistance. The 'self' of the president, desperate to appear strong, invites a foreign power. The 'self' of the United States, eager to project its own illusion of control, will send machines and men. Neither sees that the enemy is not a cartel but the collective self-destruction. This is not a solution. It is a ritual of mutual annihilation.