From The Danger Room:
This is the second of our Danger Room Debriefs, where we ask some of the smartest folks in the military, intelligence, and homeland defense fields to outline under-the-radar security issues, and point the way towards potential, often-unorthodox solutions.
Today we hear from John P. Sullivan, the co-founder of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning group. He's a lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, focusing on emerging threats. Sullivan co-edited Countering Terrorism and WMD: Creating a Global Counter-Terrorism Network.
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My Comment: More Americans have been killed, injured, or who have had their lives thrown upside down because of the drug wars from here to South America .... than the conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
The economic costs, health costs, law enforcement, cost of prisons .... these costs dwarf the costs of the war on terror. With a full scale war now occurring between nation states like Mexico and Colombia against narco gangs .... human, economic, and financial costs will be going through the roof.