I'm disappointed! I thought the "Ben Stein" writing the article was Ben Stein the actor. It's my understanding that Ben Stein is a very intelligent man - was looking forward to his take.
I don't claim to know much about that period in history, but it's my understanding that Nixon's Secret Plan to end the Vietnam War was to send more troops over. Sound familiar?
Send more troops over and bomb the fuck out of Cambodia. In secret. Remind me, if you're interested I know an excellent history of the war, but it's in my bookcase at home and I don't remember the title.
He actually wasn't that bad with the drug war, IIRC-- his programs emphasized prevention and treatment far more than ours do now. But aside from that? Oh hell yeah.
You're mostly right. :) The propaganda had been around for decades, but was so tied to racism and classism that having a drug war would have been impossible. Nixon's reaction to the huge amounts of drug use during the war, both at home and abroad, was to turn a blind eye to it in Vietnam (when not outright supporting it) but to identify, outlaw, and fund the drug war here at home. Fucktard.
"Marihuana Reconsidered" is full of hippies, but is an otherwise useful book to have lying around. Plus, it has an article by Arthur Clarke!
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Date: 2005-06-02 05:10 pm (UTC)(I thought the article said that, and that's why
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Date: 2005-06-02 03:53 pm (UTC)I wonder if anyone will write in and remind him that Nixon's policies and secret war in Cambodia set the stage for the Khmer Rouge to take office.
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Date: 2005-06-02 09:31 pm (UTC)Not bitter today. Nope.
God, the parallels between Nixon's administration and the current one are phenominal and frightening.
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Date: 2005-06-02 05:32 pm (UTC)I don't claim to know much about that period in history, but it's my understanding that Nixon's Secret Plan to end the Vietnam War was to send more troops over. Sound familiar?
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Date: 2005-06-02 09:47 pm (UTC)The propaganda had been around for decades, but was so tied to racism and classism that having a drug war would have been impossible. Nixon's reaction to the huge amounts of drug use during the war, both at home and abroad, was to turn a blind eye to it in Vietnam (when not outright supporting it) but to identify, outlaw, and fund the drug war here at home.
Fucktard.
"Marihuana Reconsidered" is full of hippies, but is an otherwise useful book to have lying around. Plus, it has an article by Arthur Clarke!
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