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It is very appropriate that our elected officials are calling one of our more serious problems a "war on drugs. ... Our war on drugs is our new Viet Nam. ...
I heard Milton Friedman once on TV argue for the legalization of drugs as a means of ending the violence and terror of the business, which is driven by the enormous profit potential. ...
But, there is a period of history with which I am very familiar and which provides an even better point of historical comparison from which we can predict the outcomes of our policies: the Viet Nam war.
We called Viet Nam a war, too, but it wasnt in the traditional strategic sense. (Of course, in terms of the suffering and death of those who were there, it was war right enough.) Since Hiroshima, we havent allowed ourselves to think much about going to war the way we did in the world wars - total war. Total war means all our resources are committed to defeating the enemy completely and causing him to surrender. Total war also means total destruction in the nuclear age. So we have had to try to re-define war. ...
There were some dissidents in those times who had this notion that if youre going to have a war, then make it a real war. ... Bennetts "war. ...
We fear all-out war. ... All-out war means that politicians have to be decisive and deal in action instead of hot air.
Approximate Word count = 1186
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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