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Cocaine Cowboys |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Guy Gugliotta and Jeff Leen's Kings of Cocaine |
| Author: Michael Hedges |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 4,253 Words, 25,828 Characters |
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During a recent inspection of Cat Cay, a Bahamian island where the United States has an antidrug outpost, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Yost told a reporter, "This is so much like Vietnam, only worse. The enemy has a thousand safe havens; the rats have a thousand holes. And even when we find them, there's so little we can do, we can't even shoot them down. It's frustrating."
A little later, the admiral--a decorated combat veteran who had inspected a dazzling array of U.S. weaponry aimed at drug traffickers--gave a pragmatic, if pessimistic, view of anti-drug efforts. "The best we can hope for is to raise their odds of getting caught from one in twenty to maybe one in five. Then, maybe in two generations, attitudes will change, and drugs will be taboo."
How did the United St...
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... understand the mess we've gotten ourselves into with illicit drugs. In Washington, D.C. alone last year, hundreds of young adults were gunned down in killings related to crack, the cheap cocaine derivative.
As Admiral Yost and others have noted, this is a crisis we'll be living with at least until our grandchildren are parents. Kings of Cocaine goes a long way toward explaining why.
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