When They Decide to Wage the “War on Drugs”

Amid the Dallas raids, stunning arrests, and major seizures, a FrontBurnervian raises an impassioned — and pertinent — point:

I’m no fan of the “war on drugs” mainly because I am a Conservative, have studied economics 101, and have read something about another failed prohibition from oh, 1919 to 1932.

But here is a question:  With all the loss of civil rights and privacy that has been inflicted upon the American people in the name of “the war on drugs”, the huge huge fiscal costs, the expansion of government , the creation of cadres of -literally- jack-booted thugs (think Waco, no-knock raids, etc.) WHY IS IT that only after an agent is killed IN MEXICO this arm of our government takes action to arrest 57 drug cartel members in Dallas, seizing heaps of cash and mounds of dope?  I mean, do they expect us to believe that they uncovered these 57 people only after the agent was killed in Mexico?  Why weren’t these people already in custody?  The chief enforcement officer says that “it’s personal now.”  What the eff was it before? 

I take it to mean “we aren’t going to do our job, we are going to ignore these 57 people with heaps of cash and mounds of dope until WE decide we are pissed off enough to do the job the taxpayer is paying us to do.” If this isn’t an indictment of this whole fraud called “the war on drugs,” I can’t think of what would be.