In a jungle shipyard in Ecuador police confiscated a diesel submarine being built by a Colombian drug cartel. It could hold a nine-man crew and ten tons of cargo, and cost over a million dollars to construct. Last week in Mexico a standoff between warring drug lords near the U.S. border killed 28 people. It's all there in yahoo news and elsewhere.
The drug trade is lethal and unstoppable. The money is too great. The madness and evil are too overwhelming. The cravings are too intense.
If they can build a submarine and equip an army, if they can make billions of dollars and ravage our streets with an insatiable sickness, what next?
The war on drugs has succeeded in nothing except making clever evil men rich. There's no winning it. The toll is senseless.
Would society be better served by legalizing and regulating drug traffic? I'm not wise enough to know. But what we are doing is not working. The evidence is all around, and mounting every day.
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