{"id":3191,"date":"2010-03-22T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:48:26","slug":"qotd-american-drug-warriors-will-fight-to-the-last-mexican-civilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/22\/qotd-american-drug-warriors-will-fight-to-the-last-mexican-civilian\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: American drug warriors will fight to the last Mexican civilian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The astonishing argument from U.S. drug warriors to the violence in Ju\u00e1rez to this point has been: <em>the bloodshed means we\u2019re winning<\/em>. Or put another way, \u201cIf thousands of Mexican need to die to keep Americans from getting high, by golly I, American drug war official, am willing to step up and make that sacrifice.\u201d Now that a few Americans have been killed too, that argument will get more difficult to make.<\/p>\n<p>But as O\u2019Grady writes, don\u2019t expect that to lead to any common sense changes in policy. To this point, the Obama administration and the leadership in Congress have made it clear that the only acceptable drug policy in Mexico is more militarization, more force, and more American funding and weapons with which to do it. If thousands more Mexicans have to die on the front lines so America\u2019s politicians can make it marginally more difficult for Americans to ingest mind-altering substances, so be it.<\/p>\n<p>Radley Balko, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2010\/03\/22\/mary-ogrady-on-mexicos-drug-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Mary O\u2019Grady on Mexico\u2019s Drug War&#8221;, <em>The Agitator<\/em><\/a>, 2010-03-22<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astonishing argument from U.S. drug warriors to the violence in Ju\u00e1rez to this point has been: the bloodshed means we\u2019re winning. Or put another way, \u201cIf thousands of Mexican need to die to keep Americans from getting high, by golly I, American drug war official, am willing to step up and make that sacrifice.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,9,10,41,13],"tags":[119,516,322,112,199],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-drugs","tag-mexico","tag-nannystate","tag-organizedcrime","tag-prohibition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Pt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65592,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/65592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}