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If our per capita drug war death toll equaled Peru’s, we would have 15 to 20 million dead. Large parts of our major cities are war zones, and our annual civilian death toll is often on a par with our annual losses in Vietnam. We, understandably, resist military deployments in the Balkans or Africa, because of the potential for casualties, but we treat our law enforcement and police officers like cannon fodder. Since the end of the Vietnam War we have lost many times more law enforcement officers to the drug war than we have lost soldiers in international conflicts.
Why does America find this acceptable collateral damage? It is not.
It might be, if we were solving the problem, but we are not. A totally adversarial model has, does, and will not work. In the face of our failure there is a rising conservative belief that by eroding/redefining our liberal Constitutional rights, and civil liberties and by severely limiting our privacy, we might be able to gain an advantage. Democratic suicide. Look at what “democracide”
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