Should U.S. Troops Become Involved In The War On Drugs?

A member of Joint Task Force Bravo refueling a Black Hawk in Honduras. Tomas Munita for The New York Times

Should U.S. Troops Fight The War On Drugs? -- New York Times

The expanded role of the U.S. Army’s special operations forces throughout the world now includes a deployment to Honduras, where it is helping fight drug smuggling. Should the military be involved in the war on drugs? Does military involvement in poor, weakly governed countries destablize them?

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My Comment: A good number of opinions and analysis are in this New York Times report. What's my take on the war on drugs .... we are treating the symptoms but not the disease, and the disease is America's insatiable appetite for narcotics.

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