Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.
BARRY MCCAFFREY
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Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.
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We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren’t there, we’re left with the bad ones
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I’m a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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Colombia is in a risky position. They’ve got a peace process that’s going nowhere, and a drug production problem that’s skyrocketing.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped – economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime – in the same continent.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
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At the end of the day…if your army won’t fight, it’s because they don’t trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don’t trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds.
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We’ve got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.
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So I don’t think we’ve got any options and we’d be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can’t sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.
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Experience is valuable only if it’s imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.
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When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I’m emotionally moved, but on the other hand I’m Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.
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