We've won the War on Drugs!

The magic realization that we've actually won the war on drugs came to me as I watched CNN the other Day. They showed a crude video of Barack Obama admitting he used illegal drugs in his youth. Naturally, as a follow up, they ran the famous "I didn't inhale" clip of Clinton's, followed by President Bush telling reporters that what he did in his past was no one's business.

Like it or not, using illegal drugs has become a right of passage, especially among presidents, or potential presidents. I guess it really doesn't mean we've actually won the war, so much as we've called a truce. Much like the political posturing about North Korea, everybody pretty much just shrugs their shoulders because though we know they can kill you, it's just not worth making a fuss about.

Afghanistan is another indicator of our having won the war on drugs. With poppy production booming after liberation from the Taliban, Afghanistan's economy now depends on this flower of happiness. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you're stuck with the flower you have not the flower you wished you had. If an increased drug trade is the cost of freedom, so be it.

There are a few areas of the war which still need a bit of mopping up. I'm talking about mandatory sentencing, mostly involving the use of crack cocaine or metamphetamines. It's what's keeping poor niggers and white trash behind bars. That being said, it sure doesn't seem to be affecting the general middle class inhaling public, i.e. the voters, the people who count.

Moreover, winning the war on drugs gives me hope that the war on terror will someday be won as well. We'll know we've won that war when we elect a president who has admitted to planting a bomb...and I'm not talking about the little firecrackers Dubya used to shove up the orifices of little frogs when he was a kid either.... I'm talking something just short of nuclear.