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- LETTERS, Page 9Drug Withdrawal
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- The drug war can no longer be fought with beautiful phrases
- (NATION, Sept. 4). Treachery, greed, terror, force and death
- are the hallmarks of the drug thugs. Each triumph fills
- narcobarons with ever greater confidence in their invincibility.
- Power is what matters in the world of money, blood and fire, not
- aesthetic concerns, education or even life itself.
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- George Abusambra Bogota
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- What a sad paradox that the U.S. Government is compelled to
- spend millions of dollars to combat the drug forces largely
- financed by the citizens of the U.S.
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- Eugene P. Lillard Austin
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- The drugs in Colombia are not the heart of the issue.
- Killing Colombians will never kill the American drug problem.
- Prohibition didn't stop alcoholism; papal infallibility hasn't
- stopped abortion (the Supreme Court won't either); and military
- action in Colombia won't stop drug addiction. Drugs don't hurt
- anyone until they are taken. The question worth answering is,
- Why are Americans, or anybody for that matter, taking drugs?
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- Murray Woody Vienna
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- The time has come to end the orgy of terror in Colombia.
- Action has to be taken now or never.
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- Edison Berrio Plainfield, N.J.
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- I read with alarm your article about the drug war. I'm
- astounded at the power wielded by the Colombian cartels.
- Americans are going to feel the backlash when the drug supply
- is choked off. We have blundered into widespread, "harmless"
- recreational drug use. Abrupt withdrawal will affect many U.S.
- households.
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- Dan Bower Flint, Mich.
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- Offering to supply brass knuckles to besieged Colombians,
- and then holding their coats as the fight escalates, is
- pretending the drug problem is in Colombia instead of in the
- White House backyard.
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- William J. Weber Paris, Tenn.
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