COMMENTS:
Drug activity and terrorism are both behaviors, not enemies that can be defeated. There is no way of preventing people in the future from becoming terrorists and there is no way of preventing people in the future from growing or making more drugs.
I think it's too late for this generation, I mean, not sure anything western powers could do at this point to stop terrorist, if we start changing policies now, may be hope for next generation. But I think too much damage has been done to change view on either side in near future
Both are used as justifications for more and more weapons AND restricting freedom.
as for the war on drugs, I think that is a hopeless cause,
Not really. Both seek to impose (ineffective) military responses to the symptoms of problems that are ill-suited to being addressed primarily through force.
First, the war on drugs is actually a war on non-prescribed drugs: the drugs of the poor. There is absolutely no war against the massive use and misuse of prescription drugs by the wealthy. So, it is a smidgen different than the so-called war on terror.
The so-called war on terror is a back door way to line the pockets of the military-industrial establishment.
I mean, think about it: What a silly, sophomoric thing GWB says in "justifying" his war on terrorism: "They hate freedom..." I mean do we believe this nonsense. Just how dumb are we? Noone hates freedom. We may well despise the terrorists and their tactics (and we are all agreed that 9-11 was a despicable act), but must we also accept the mindless justifications of the right in order to seem patriotic? I hope not.
GWB could not have written a better script for his survival as President: 9-11 took him off the hook for the economic slide, and it allowed him to transfer massive wealth to his and V.P. Chaney's favorite companies.
There is some similarity between the wars on drugs and terrorism (the wealthy are exempt from fighting in them, for example)in that both are "justified" with absurd logic, and both are failing.
Thanks for an interesting ballot.
Or different from the "war" on poverty for that matter?
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