America's Longest War

PrintSmith wrote: I noticed you also went back and wholly removed a previous response and made it completely disappear. Reminds me of people disappearing from photos when they disappear from society.

Yes, I did. My post was off topic, as I posted in the wrong thread, and I didn't want it to detract from the lively discussion.

Raees wrote: The misremembering of Richard Nixon also stems from the “war on drugs” increasingly becoming a term that is used to mean almost anything and therefore means almost nothing.
http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/drug-p ... -on-drugs/

Reminds me of "Change We Can Believe In" and "Forward". Rorschach Test phrases which remain undefined and therefore anything and nothing all at the same time. War on Drugs, War on Poverty, War on Women, War on Terror, End of Medicare as We Know It . . . . . pretty much all of them fit the description.

Raees wrote:

PrintSmith wrote: I noticed you also went back and wholly removed a previous response and made it completely disappear. Reminds me of people disappearing from photos when they disappear from society.

Yes, I did. My post was off topic, as I posted in the wrong thread, and I didn't want it to detract from the lively discussion.

So tell me Raees, what topic did you mean to post the response that dealt with Bush starting a war with no exit strategy in if not this one?

Before you respond, I'd like to pass along a little bit of advice my father once passed along to me from his father. First thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is stop digging. You understand what I'm saying here, don't you?

Then you should follow your father's advice.

But, to humor you, here's what I was responding to:

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Raees wrote: Then you should follow your father's advice.

But, to humor you, here's what I was responding to:

http://www.285bound.com/Forums/viewtopi ... 7&#p241797

So you decided, as expected, to keep digging despite the good advice you received.

So how do you feel about Nixon's 'War on Drugs"??

Drug addiction or dependence sufferd by a citizen of New York is a State of New York problem, not a federal one. Certainly the federal government is within its constitutional boundaries to classify drugs into certain categories and determine how they are to be imported, exported and to regulate how, not if, the are transported between the States, but if the State of Colorado and its citizens determine that Oxycodone may be sold over the counter without a prescription, that is for us to determine, not the federal government. States, not the general government, are responsible for the individual welfare of their citizens.

Does this mean you think the DEA should be disbanded and drug enforcement efforts be confined to only states, not the government?

Is there only one government in your view Raees? Didn't the answer to your earlier query also provide the answer to your present one as well? Do me a favor. Spend a little less time seeing what others are saying that you can parrot and a little more time contemplating what the roles of the tiered republican governments our system has would be in the system that was outlined in my earlier response.

Thank you, oh wise one.