U.S.-Mexico 'war on drugs' a failure

[Robbie88]

Source: CNN Opinion

Last week during the day, some kids in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were playing soccer in a park when a car slowed down, guys got out and executed a 13-year-old boy. And then they drove away, unmolested in a city with 11,000 army and police officers.

The Mexican government repeatedly states that 90 percent of the deaths in the current drug war are of people who are dirty; that is, criminals involved in the drug business. The killings of reporters and of innocent women, men and children continually belie that statement.

The child was not a cartel member in disguise. Nor were the 15 high school kids killed at a party in a small house in a poor barrio. Their parents had made them hold the celebration of a sports victory at home because it was too dangerous to be out in the city.

I went to Juarez in June of 1995 and never seem to escape the pull of the place. The city then was controlled by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, then the head of the Juarez cartel. Drug Enforcement Agency intelligence told me he was raking in $250 million a week.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/31/bowden.ciudad.juarez.cartels/index.html?hpt=C2

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1. the 'war's on {insert abstract boogey man here} will always and forever be epic failures

because you can't fight shadows on the wall.

That is, you cannot rid the world of the emotion of 'terror', no more than you can rid the world of 'drugs'. It is categorically impossible, and therefore a fool's errand to try.