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Corners. in politics, just in our citizenship, there are a handful of what seemed like forever problems. things that were always getting worse. downward trends that we lived with for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years. things that only ever seemed to get worse that have now stopped getting worse and are getting better. i m not talking about things that fluctuate up and down all the time but things that were like this forever and now all of a sudden they ve turned. of course, it s not true of everything. it s not true of a lot of very big things, but it is true of some things, and today we got another one. we got a big one. when richard nixon declared the start of the drug war in 1971, it is clear from contemporaneous reporting he thought he was tee clairing a war that he could win. he thought that with a sufficient show of federal force and presidential leadership, this whole drugs thing could be kicked. he could win a war on drugs and everybody would love him for it and nobody would use dru ....
Now, of course, over all these years and all of these presidents and re-declarations of war, there s been no real effect on american drug use. there has just been a vast expansion of the criminal justice system. criminal justice system at its least effective and most intrusive. and it has never seemed like it would ever get any better. if you are 40 years old, say, then your life has spanned the drug war. all of your teenage years, your 20s, 30s, have been about the drug war not only existing but ramping up and up and up with no end in sight no matter what was in charge. except now it finally changing. at least some of it is changing. that sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine that president clinton did not seem fit to act on despite the opinion commission, president clinton didn t seem fit to act on that. under president obama, that was passed through congress and signed into law. president obama signed the bill to fix that disparity with his ....
Place for crack. now, of course, over all these years and all of these presidents and redeclarations of war, there s been no real effect on american drug use. there has just been a vast expansion of the criminal justice system. criminal justice system at its least effective and most intrusive. and it has never seemed like it would ever get any better. if you are 40 years old, say, then your life has spanned the drug war. all of your teenage years, your 20s, 30s, have been about the drug war not only existing but ramping up and up and up with no end in sight no matter what was in charge. except now it finally changing. at least some of it is changing. that sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine that president clinton did not seem fit to act on despite the o ppinion commission, president clinton didn t seem fit to act on that. under president obama, that was ....
Not believing that the u.s. inspectors will be able to determine whether or not chemical weapons were used. ahead of them actually stating that seems like it s got incredible chutzpa for a president who came into office who definitely won the democratic primary in part of him saying what was wrong with the rush to war in iraq and his respect for the international institutions that were flouted in the rush to that war. i find it hard to believe that this president won t wait to at least hear a we don t know from those inspectors that he d rush before hearing anything. i think he will wait for their report, but he s not going to be mindful of it. i don t think i think he ll wait for a call from ban ki-moon to verbally tell him what he s heard from the briefing, but i think that means sunday. and that is when i suspect the window opens because the president leaves tuesday for sweden. unlikely that this would begin while he s already in transit outside of the country and to go to st. p ....
Not believing that the u.s. inspectors will be able to determine whether or not chemical weapons were used. ahead of them actually stating that seems like it s got incredible chutzpa for a president who came into office who definitely won the democratic primary in part of him saying what was wrong with the rush to war in iraq and his respect for the international institutions that were flouted in the rush to that war. i find it hard to believe that this president won t wait to at least hear a we don t know from those inspectors that he d rush before hearing anything. i think he will wait for their report, but he s not going to be mindful of it. i don t think i think he ll wait for a call from ban ki-moon to verbally tell him what he s heard from the briefing, but i think that means sunday. and that is when i suspect the window opens because the president leaves tuesday for sweden. unlikely that this would begin ....