....We'd go to war against ourselves. Does it strike anyone else that the so-called "War on Drugs" is the costliest war, both in terms of money and mortality inflicted by Americans upon Americans since the Civil War?
Seriously, this is just reaching such an insane level that it leaves me utterly gobsmacked.
Steve Chapman lays it on:
When the government lays out hundreds of billions to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent, only to see it hit 10 percent, the obvious implication is that the policy didn't work. But when the government lays out tens of billions to reduce illicit drug use and finds that it has increased, the obvious implication is one that eludes almost every politician in America.
The war is a failure because we're fighting ourselves.
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