One of my main concerns is when will we see the targets being critics of the president, or the chief of police, or the highest bidder? As for collatoral damage, the Miami drug wars in the 70's and 80's saw people being murdered by the hundreds, including toddlers. Murder is a basic, first-to-go-to tool in the drug traders' tool kit. Then the drugs themselves. Drugs wreck havoc on families, communities, regions and countries.
I am against going around killing, for whatever reason but I also wonder, what has not been tried in the war against drugs and is killing the dealers constructive in that sense? I'm not convinced it is but it is a tough question that puts the saying "the end justifies the means" to the test and I don't have a very good answer to that as it stands.
Will he be able to rid the country of drugs? No. Too much money involved and too powerful criminal organizations (and entire countries: North Korea's Room 39 leaps to mind) have an interest in it for one country and a maverick president to kick out the dealers. Eradicate local drug businesses and foreign drug businesses will move in and some of them are pretty well equipped for a war against the Philipino Govt.
Did these murders solve the drug problem then?
Last edited by Von Due; 08-29-16 at 08:51 AM.
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