POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
The war on drugs is as meaningless as the war in Afghanistan.
Not that they both don't hurt lots of innocent people, but neither can ever enjoy anything called success.
Indeed, in the last decade the two have become badly tangled.
The Taleban – a movement originally representing the Muslim fundamentalist idea of clean government - had virtually eliminated the opium business.
The American gangbusters invasion, which Canadians are supporting with the blood of soldiers and billions from the treasury, brought it back like a fury.
Even Russia has complained formally of America's impact on the flow of drugs.
Prices actually fell on world markets, one of the surest marks of a flood of drugs.
Nice achievement there, America.
But of course what people like the silly author of this editorial completely ignore in blubbering about drugs - always - is that it is America itself, with less than five percent of the world’s population, that sucks up fully one-half of the world's illicit drugs.
It's just part of the "I want it all, and I want it now" philosophy that pretty much characterizes today's American society, the same ungoverned lusts that gave the world its financial collapse.
America also has a monstrous appetite for wars, manufacturing them even where there is no good cause.
Basically , America cannot govern itself, yet insists on many fronts in telling others how to govern themselves. It is, if you will, the great dark joke of the century.
So how do you solve a serious human problem having those kinds of roots?
You don't, ever.
And people like the editorial's author should just stop blubbering. They are literally peeing against the wind.
