What Kind of War for Colombia? Colombia has just inaugurated a hard-line president, Alvaro Uribe, who has promised to crack down on the country's left-wing insurgents and right-wing paramilitaries. Meanwhile, U.S. aid is flooding in, and since September u, American efforts have shifted from fighting drugs to battling subversives. Peace will not come, however, until Bogotá rebuilds neglected state institutions and starts providing real security