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An Interesting Essay on the War on Drugs

As the title says, an interesting statement from a military man on "The War on Drugs' taken as a military perspective. Makes some valid points too - especially with the comparison with Vietnam - essentially they're the same, in that they're open-ended with no possible victory solution beyond a Mexican Standoff.

Posted by Dan on Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 8:20 PM |

Sort of like the "Global War on Terror", no?

Posted by Blogger kevvyd | Mon Feb 27, 04:17:00 PM  

Not really - my take on it is the Global War on Terror is more akin to the Cold War.

Posted by Blogger Dan | Tue Feb 28, 07:52:00 AM  

I disagree. The Cold War was intranational and this one is not - there are no countries that openly support "the terrorists". This appears to be a war against a battle tactic and makes absolutely no sense IMO.

Posted by Blogger kevvyd | Tue Feb 28, 10:34:00 AM  

Good points, Kev, although what I meant was that I view the War on Terror as a clash between 2 opposing idealogies

Posted by Blogger Dan | Tue Feb 28, 03:07:00 PM  

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