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To: ManyMoose who wrote (478599)3/26/2012 12:51:56 PM
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>> I had no idea the drug trade was so sophisticated.

When there is an illegal substance that is in demand, that buyers are willing to pay nearly unlimited amounts of money for, the black market for that substance will spend unlimited amounts of money to transport that substance.

This is what caused Donald Rumsfeld to say the following during his confirmation hearings in 2001:

"If demand persists, it’s going to get what it wants. And if it isn’t from Colombia, it’s going to be from someplace else.”

Later, commenting on opium growing in Afghanistan:

“You push it down in one country, and it goes up in another country” said RUMSFELD. “You push it down in four countries, and the price goes up because there’s a shortage, and the higher the price, the greater the willingness of people to take risk, the greatest — greater the willingness of people to buy the kinds of things they need to hide what they’re doing and to protect them as they transport these materials.”

This is the insanity of America's "War on Drugs". A war which can never be won and should never have been fought. Almost identical in every respect to the failed war on alcohol we called "Prohibition". The primary difference is that Prohibition was tiny by comparison and it took far less time for the country to realize what a mistake it was.
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