Worldview Item of the Day
The Mexican Navy (yes, there is one. They helped during Katrina too) intercepted a Columbian drug cartel made submarine smuggling cocaine. This is one of several such interceptions conducted by Columbia, the United States, and now Mexico in recent years.
What this phenomenon proves to me is the futility of the so-called “War on Drugs”. If there is a demand for drugs in the United States, there will be a supply. Make the supply harder to get to by bad political policy and the cost simply goes up, funding ingenuity like no other action can.
I’m not sure I am willing to go so far as to suggest that drugs should be simply legalized; however making them illegal in the way we have does nothing to address the moral and social problems that lead to drug use.
What these policies do lead to is the escalation of the tactics used to traffic drugs, making the resulting war more dangerous than ever before. If we think cocaine smuggling subs are spectacular, wait until they carry torpedoes and guns.
