{"id":2657,"date":"2010-03-22T11:16:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2010-03-22T11:16:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:16:29","slug":"drug-war-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":"Drug War Delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buy Ambien Online Without Prescription What an irony: In Afghanistan, the U.S. military, in order to achieve a larger strategic victory in Marja, the former Taliban stronghold, is ignoring the vast opium fields in their midst. As this NYT story<\/a> from yesterday reports:<\/p>\n

Ambien Buy Online “Marja is a special case right now,”\u009d said Cmdr. Jeffrey Eggers, a member of the general’s Strategic Advisory Group, his top advisory body. “We don’t trample the livelihood of those we’re trying to win over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Buy Soma Online Now Mexico is a whole other kettle of drugs, so winning over the vicious cartels there is not an option. But it appears that ordinary Mexican citizens are turning against<\/a> its government’s ineffectual war on the cartels. Meanwhile, the U.S., like a junkie’s enabler, is just helping to extend the misery and collateral damage. Is there an exit strategy for this war? As Blake Hounshell recently wrote<\/a> in Foreign Policy:<\/p>\n

Tramadol For Sale Online If you ask me, it all seems like doubling down on a failed strategy<\/a> — a typical example of trying to solve a social and political problem through military and technical means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think his qualifier was too generous. It’s pretty obvious the U.S. is sticking with the tip of the spear.<\/p>\n

So why is that the U.S., when faced with failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, can pivot to a new war strategy, but not do the same with the endless drug war on its own turf and across its southern border?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What an irony: In Afghanistan, the U.S. military, in order to achieve a larger strategic victory in Marja, the former Taliban stronghold, is ignoring the vast opium fields in their midst. As this NYT story from yesterday reports: “Marja is a special case right now,”\u009d said Cmdr. Jeffrey Eggers, a member of the general’s Strategic… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2618,2818],"tags":[956,1315],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-policy","category-mexico","tag-drug-war","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}