Drug War
What drug war? Your article (“U.S. Is Losing the Drug War in Colombia,” Aug. 8) details our expensive but ineffective efforts to interdict the manufacture of cocaine and its export to the U.S. and other countries. Yet no mention is made of military action to bomb the cocaine processing plants, strafe the truck convoys, shoot down drug courier airplanes and sink cocaine cargo ships. That’s because there has not been any such effort.
War is politics by other means. It is brought forth when peaceful political effort has failed. Peaceful political effort has failed to reduce the flow of drugs into this country. We will not win the “drug war” until we have one.
GREG MEYER
Los Angeles
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