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Drug War Logic 101

By smorgan
Created 2009/02/16 - 9:53pm
by Scott Morgan [1], February 16, 2009, 09:53pm
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Pete Guither [4] and Dave Borden [5] already mentioned it, but I just can’t get enough of this quote from the Wall Street Journal [6]:

"If the drug effort were failing there would be no violence," a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. There is violence "because these guys are flailing. We're taking these guys out. The worst thing you could do is stop now."

So let me get this straight. According to the U.S. government:

No violence = drug war is failing
Intense violence = drug war is going well

So when do we win the drug war then? When everyone’s dead?
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[4] http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2009/02/12.html#a3298
[5] http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2009/feb/15/increasing_violence_in_mexico_is
[6] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123439889394275215.html?mod=googlenews_wsj