[Hepsabeth]

I'll believe it's a WAR when I start seeing a body count for dead drug dealers. Till then it's a game of Tiddlywinks.

Drug dealers are being executed literally every day, without benefit of a trial, by other other drug dealers. It hasn't stopped anything. New ones are always waiting in the wings. But you think that if the government starts executing them, that will magically make some huge difference?

[DiogenesLamp]

Drug dealers are being executed literally every day, without benefit of a trial, by other other drug dealers.

That's just a hazard of doing business in that trade. It's both random, and insufficiently fatal to enough of them to create a deterrence effect.

But you think that if the government starts executing them, that will magically make some huge difference?

It did in China. It utterly wiped out the drug trade in China. They do it in Singapore, and it works there pretty well. They are trying it in the Philippines, and so we can keep an eye on the situation there and see if it makes a difference.

I am betting it will.