Sean Dunagan, a former DEA agent, has a must-read guest-post up at the Agitator:

I spent 13 years working as an Intelligence Analyst with the Drug Enforcement Administration before resigning last year.  Over the course of that time, I gradually realized that our drug policies only served to enrich and empower the very cartels we were fighting.  I could have kept up the good fight for another 50 years, and the problem would only have been worse as a result of my efforts.

In 2010, while assigned to the DEA office in Monterrey, Mexico, my family was evacuated as a result of the city’s rapidly deteriorating security situation.  As I drove them northward through the desert in a long caravan of heavily-armed Federal Police trucks, trying to comprehend the barbarity plaguing the region, I recalled a wonderful verse from the Tao Te Ching: Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

Read more here.

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    Sounds like the dialectics man

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