The policy of the Clinton Administration in Colombia has been subject to many criticisms. The main concern critics have is the relationship between U.S. funding and human rights violations committed in Colombia. Several organizations ranging from the Colombian National Police to anti-guerilla paramilitary groups have been responsible for thousands of deaths in Colombia. These groups receive U.S. aid both directly and indirectly There are several arguments against U.S. aid to Colombia. One major argument says that the U.S. is further militarizing Colombia in order to serve its own purpose of maintaining stability there. This assumption buries the idea that the Colombian government uses anti-narcotics funds for other purposes, which include combating Marxist guerillas and supporting paramilitary forces to combat the guerillas as well. Another argument says that the U.S. has created the idea of "narco-guerillas" to justify its military aid increases over the past decade. South America's longest running guerilla war has killed over 35,000 Colombians over the last decade (Amnesty International). In Colombia's internal conflict, the organizations involved have limited direct confrontations and instead attack the opposition's alleged sympathizers- usually unarmed civilians. Guerrillas, paramilitaries and national security forces have all been responsible for massive human rights violations. Yet it is the government forces and paramilitaries which have utilized U.S. foreign assistance (WOLA). The largest guerilla organizations in Colombia are FARC and ELN. Although FARC taxes coca cultivation and cocaine production in southern Colombia their connections to drugs is not what U.S. foreign policy claims and does not justify counter-narcotics policy. General McCaffrey has continuously referred to Colombian insurgents as "narco-guerrillas" and has suggested that it is "silly at this point" to try to distinguish between counter-narcotics efforts and the war against insurgents....