Whack-a-mole: Dollar vs. Dollar: US Consumers Battle US Taxpayers in Global Drug War

A brilliant way to understand the war on drugs. "The Citizen" is the student paper of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Dollar vs. Dollar: US Consumers Battle US Taxpayers in Global Drug War | The Citizen: "The drug war is best understood as a battle of dollar versus dollar — a bloody war between the dollars of US taxpayers and the dollars of US consumers.
On one side, Americans pay large sums of money to vast networks of people who grow, process, ship, smuggle, defend, and deliver drugs to the US. On the other side, Americans also pay another network of people vast amounts to find, fight, arrest, and kill those whom we hire to provide the drugs to begin with.

... many Latin American nations are becoming less willing to play host to the outsourced drug war between American taxpayers and American consumers. So long as US dollars finance both sides of this bloody international battle, it makes little difference what is done anywhere else." Nov. 25, 2010