Drugs, Guns, Money, Misdirection

h/t to our friend The Sojourner, for referencing the site from which this article was found, which helped to focus a perspective on this issue. 

Sadly, the (near forgotten) “war on drugs” has, of late, taken a step towards the surreal.  The basics are pretty easily understood:  The insatiable US (and, more generally “western”) demand for recreational drugs, undinted by prohibition efforts here and abroad, continues to feed a systemic global gangterism that, in many places, has utterly decimated and corrupted both sovereign authority and national security, spreading to a such an extent that the death toll near the US-Mexican border far and away exceeds that accruing in both Iraq and Afghanistan.