joe dees wrote:
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> As I previously stated, it is a strategy of defence, not attack (which is why the Vietnamese were able to rid themselves of us; they employed it). This is also why the US "War on Drug Users" fails. The US, in both instances, was/is attacking, not defending.
You think the Drug War is a failure?
The War on Some Drugs has been a smashing sucess in terms of
demoralizing the black community, dismantling a lot of the gains of the
civil rights movement, fomenting racial antipathy, creating a burgeoning
prison population which is used by US corporations as virtual slave
labor, weakening civil liberties, turning a supposedly free and liberal
(ha!) press into a complicit partner in the government's propaganda
campaign, and finding a new justification for a bloated military in the
post-cold-war era by creating a new enemy out of thin air. It's only a
failure if you believe that the intended goal is or ever was to reduce
illicit drug use.