Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Hooray for another record-breaking opium crop in Afghanistan! And hooray for the labs in Turkey manufacturing heroin for the world. The triumph of capitalism.
Our motto: “They ship it in. We shoot it up. They shoot us down.”
This is not possible. We’ve had a war on drugs for 50 – 100 years. We have been assured every year (at budget time) that we are winning this war. We have spent a trillion (true!) dollars prosecuting this war. We have taken millions of casualties. Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Honduras have been almost destroyed. We’ve put millions of people in jail. We’ve brought wholesale corruption to our cities and police forces. And on and on and on. We’ve sacrificed so much for this war. It has diminished our country, actually, and in the eyes of the world, over which we pushed this war. Yet I’m expected to believe that heroin is still a problem? This strains credulity. That would mean that we have been lied to at the highest levels for many years. That would mean that our elected officials, at all levels, are either gutless, absolutely uncaring of their constituents, corrupt, ignorant, or a combination of these. And that can’t be, can it?
Also remember that every doctor or prescribing entity must be registered with and monitored by the DEA. And they are monitored. So how does this happen???
Worse than either guns or cars:
http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/12/21/guns_vs_cars_and_drugs_1500.html
Hooray for another record-breaking opium crop in Afghanistan! And hooray for the labs in Turkey manufacturing heroin for the world. The triumph of capitalism.
Our motto: “They ship it in. We shoot it up. They shoot us down.”
Do the profits still go straight to the CIA “off the books”?
This is not possible. We’ve had a war on drugs for 50 – 100 years. We have been assured every year (at budget time) that we are winning this war. We have spent a trillion (true!) dollars prosecuting this war. We have taken millions of casualties. Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Honduras have been almost destroyed. We’ve put millions of people in jail. We’ve brought wholesale corruption to our cities and police forces. And on and on and on. We’ve sacrificed so much for this war. It has diminished our country, actually, and in the eyes of the world, over which we pushed this war. Yet I’m expected to believe that heroin is still a problem? This strains credulity. That would mean that we have been lied to at the highest levels for many years. That would mean that our elected officials, at all levels, are either gutless, absolutely uncaring of their constituents, corrupt, ignorant, or a combination of these. And that can’t be, can it?
Also remember that every doctor or prescribing entity must be registered with and monitored by the DEA. And they are monitored. So how does this happen???