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>From: "Peter McWilliams" <peter@mcwilliams.com>
>Subject: So we're not fighting a War on Drugs, 'eh general?
>Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:30:14 -0800
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>So we're not fighting a War on Drugs, 'eh general?
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>General McCaffrey likes to downplay the "war" metaphor and prefers to call
>drug use a "cancer." When he addresses Congress, however, on a
>drug-enforcement bill he finds "too specific," he does not use a medical
>analogy:
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>"Wisely, the Congress never thought to tell General Norman Schwarzkopf where
>to deploy his armored forces during operation Desert Storm or when and how
>to attack. It would be inappropriate for the Congress to interfere in
>decisions that are properly those of duly appointed leaders, law enforcement
>officials, U.S. diplomatic personnel, unified commanders, the Secretary of
>State, and other responsible officials within the Executive Branch. This
>legislative approach would be bad government."
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>And bad war policy, too.
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>Enjoy,
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>Peter
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>Testimony of Barry R. McCaffrey
>Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy,
>Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
>and the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control,
>On the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act
>September 16, 1998
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