more terror

We had another terror incident over the holiday. How many more will we need before people start seeing the obvious? The whole war on terror idea is hopelessly flawed. You can't fight wars on terror, or on drugs, or on cancer. It doesn't work. If anything, you will get the exact opposite results of what you are trying to achieve. All phony wars fail. That is what history shows.

Look at Mexico. The situation is a disaster. We won the drug war in Columbia and so it moved. Are there any less drugs? Ask any teen. And what is so bad about drugs anyways? It is not like we are drug free.

The solution to the war on drugs is quite simple. It consist of two steps that nobody wants to take: 1. make all drugs legal--that will save lives. 2. make access to weapons difficult--that will save even more lives. That is the solution. There is no drug problem, there is a gun problem in America today. Unfortunately, nobody wants to see it. Least of all the gun manufacturers.

As for Iraq, the only thing we are doing there apart from fighting a war over oil, is to enrage muslims and make it more likely people will try terror attacks against us and against US targets abroad. Afghanistan is pretty much the same idea. Here too the object is energy (gas pipelines), and unfortunately, here too we are on the wrong side of a civil war.

Once again the solutions are trivial. Get out of Iraq and get out of Afghanistan. There is no dependence on foreign oil. We don't need foreign oil. We can just cut back on our waste and the problem will be solved. If we all drove sensible cars we would not have to import oil. If the military stopped wasting 1 million gallons a day in Iraq and another million in Afghanistan, there would be less global warming.

The issue is not dependence on foreign oil. The issue is that some people want to control oil and gas. All oil and gas, anywhere, whether we need it or not. Why? Because they make money doing it.

And what about the terrorists? It does not take Al Qaeda or Osama or anyone else to blow up a plane. All you need is some high school chemistry and a cool head. It is easy and it is cheap. The ingredients can be found anywhere and they are dirt cheap too. You don't need training camps, or manuals. You don't need supporters. It is nothing new, people blow up stuff all the time. If Timothy McVeigh could do it, then anyone else can too.

We should get out of Iraq and Afghanistan because all we are doing is riling up tempers and creating more instability. Let's kill two birds with one stone. We could buy the opium from Afghanistan and sell it legally in America. How's that for a solution?