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What role should the US play in reducing the production of illicit drugs-such as cocaine and heroin-in places like Bolivia and Afghanistan?

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by Phillip Mitchell

Created on: May 10, 2008

It is naive ignorance that arouses difficulty in answering a question such as this without veering into the realm of the unacceptable amongst the masses. The true players in the illicit drug trade, both here and abroad, have dangerous influence and sometimes control over many of the politicians we see as honorable overlords in our governments. It is no great secret that a blind eye is turned by many leaders to the activity of the power elite of drug trafficking. It can also be said that many of the anti-drug programs exist only to deceive a drug plagued public that something is being done to relieve the agony of the toxins and all the death,chaos and crime they perpetrate. Meanwhile, as concerned citizens indulge in endless debate over what to do, the invisible forces who determine how much and what kinds of intoxicants are needed to keep us in a suffocating grip of ignorance bordering stupidity, make their implementations without interruption.

A substantial percentage of all illicit drug production is destined for the United States. Thus, there can be no question that a real program for intervention should be executed by those charged with the protection of the people of this country. The role the government should play in reducing drug production in these countries needs to be relentless with all the reasons why clearly understood right down to each individual of the nation's populous. However, without the required seriousness of dedication to this end on the part of the government, the flames of the will to burn us with this aggression through illicit poisons can only be fueled.

It is unfortunate that we appear in this world and immediately face so many dark things we can't understand until our personal plight has regressed beyond the point of the ability to progress. In this self-destructive state illicit drugs drag our consciousness down to a level accessible by frightening elements which we might have otherwise never recognized or been exposed to. This contact influences the mind, traits, habits and choice of determinations the individual develops. It leads us to a plane of life after death somewhat like this one, only it is not as brightly lit and in a dismal and dreadful state. This is the secret aim of those ordering and directing the drug lords we are led to believe are the final culprits. There are those who exist only to misguide the living against themselves. Many legal and all illicit drugs are used as a part of the methodology of this ongoing tragedy.

The role the government should play needs to also be re-education in these realities. For, bringing resolve to a sleeping public entails waking them up to the actualities of the problem.

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