Posted by Randy Barnett: And Then Maybe He Can Save Mexico: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_02_22-2009_02_28.shtml#1235350899
I have heard the expression, "I will believe there is a global warming [1]crisis when the people who tell me there is a crisis start acting like there is a crisis." The same could be said about the global War on Terror. I once asked former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff if he would be willing to reconsider the War on Drugs since it was obviously providing the financial resources for terrorist organizations. Naturally, he rejected this option as a false choice, and voiced his support for the War on Drugs as the way to reduce drug abuse. But can one be truly serious about the dangers of terrorism if they continue to support the prohibitionist policies that fund the terrorists? If drug prohibition were funding the German or Japanese regimes in WWII, do we really think that it would not have been suspended "for the duration"? Case in point is Mexico where the government there may be on [2]the verge of collapse and needs to [3]deny it is a failed state. I don't think I will be returning to Cancun or Cabo anytime soon. If the President will consider ending the War on Poppies in Afghanistan in the interest of fighting the war against the Taliban, then perhaps he would also consider preventing the establishment of a narco-terrorist regime directly adjacent to the United States by ending the War on Drugs that makes the Mexican narco-gangsters possible. Whenever someone complains that libertarians are just pie-in-the-sky utopian (or distopian) intellectuals, just ask them again about the real world consequences of the War on Drugs, and see who gets all pie-in-the-sky right quick. /rant References 1. http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/012023.php 2. http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=d150e7da-af10-4393-aebb-72e76353beb7 3. http://m3report.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/mexican-secretary-of-foreign-affairs-rejects-the-idea-that-mexico-is-a-failed-state/ _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
