War on Drugs

Last Monday on C-SPAN, The Brookings Institute held a discussion panel on U.S. and Latin America Relations. On stage was the Former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo 1994-2000, who commented that America should continue the war on drugs.

It occurred to me that the actions of a bureaucracy are primarily for the sake of the bureaucracy's existence alone, which explains why there doesn't appear to be progress in the war on drugs, the war on terror, or the war on poverty.