COLOMBIA'S PASTRANA: DRUG WAR HASN'T WORKED
Colombian President Andres Pastrana, one of Washington's closest allies in
the global war on drugs, called for a review of that struggle yesterday,
saying it has produced few victories, according to The Dallas Morning
News. ( http://www.dallasnews.com/national/464849_colombia_07int.html )
"The conclusions are not good," Pastrana said in a rare talk with foreign
journalists ahead of next week's visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
"The conclusions are that drugs are still the first- or second-biggest
business of mankind," he said. "Clearly, we must also make an
evaluation--and not only of the policies of fumigation and interdiction."
In "Declaring an Armistice in the International Drug War," (
http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-026.html ) Vice President for
Defense and Foreign Policy Studies Ted Galen Carpenter demanded an
armistice to the failed international drug war that has hurt all sides of
the conflict. In "Time to End the Drug War," (
http://www.cato.org/dailys/12-03-97.html ) Financial Services Analyst
Jacobo Rodriguez explains that "efforts to eradicate crops and
interdiction of traffic--that is, efforts to reduce the supply of drugs --
put only a small dent in the profit margins of traffickers."
Earlier this year, the Cato Institute hosted "Plan Colombia: Should We
Escalate the War on Drugs?" ( http://www.cato.org/events/010313pf.html )
featuring Prof. Russell Crandall of Davidson College and Amb. James F.
Mack of the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics & Law
Enforcement Affairs. The forum can be viewed online.
Cato Daily Dispatch
September 7, 2001
http://www.cato.org/
http://www.cato.org/dispatch/09-07-01d.html
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1 John 2:15-17 (NKJV)
Do Not Love the World
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes,
and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world.
17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it;
but he who does the will of God abides forever.
