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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.