Trump’s Next Challenge: Russia Returns to Afghanistan

Fiscal Times ^ | 24 Mar 17 | Patrick Smith

[nathanbedford]

You do bring up an interesting subject. It occurs that the war in Afghanistan is a metaphor for the war on drugs, wars that we are losing, wars that are costing trillions, wars that never end.

I am a conservative with a pesky libertarian streak that tells me we are hopelessly losing the war on drugs and ought to legalize them to avoid erosion of our civil liberties, draining the treasury, and financing the very addiction we wage war to defeat. Not incidentally, we would go a long way toward winning the war in Afghanistan if we ceased financing both sides of that war with our insatiable demand for heroin which is made profitable both here and in Afghanistan by the very laws which prohibit it.