Drugs in America are sweeping the nation. Everyday billions upon billions of dollars worth of illicit drugs are smuggled into the country to take over our street corners, turn our neighborhoods into war zones, and turn children into puppets. How has America let this happen? How has America let drugs, addiction, disease, and corruption take over the lives of millions of Americans? America has let this happen by trying not just to prevent or even slow down, but to put a complete halt to all forms of illicit drug use and trafficking. Since the Reagan administration, the government has been taking in and dishing out billions of tax payer's dollars to combat this war to no avail. Instead of Americans choosing how to live their lives, they must hide it and live in shame. Prohibition of drugs has spawned, as it always does, a robust black market, which inevitably spins off many social pathologies and is a policy that can only fail because its objective- a drug free America- is unrealistic and unattainable#. The upcoming paragraphs will attempt to show how the War on Drugs is failing America because of the infringement upon American's civil liberties, racial bias-ness, and the massive amount of dollars being spent on a war which has become a stalemate.
Where there is democracy, there is freedom of choice. Freedom to choose what to eat and drink, how to raise our children, what religion to belong to- if any- and how we choose to live our lives. The best thing about democracy is that if Americans feel that democracy and their civil liberties are being infringed upon, they have the power to vouch for change. While many things through the course of America's history have been shifted and altered to preserve democracy, the War on Drugs has not budged since the Reagan era's conservative republican administration waged the ridiculous and so called war. Just as the government can not force Americans to not eat too much cholesterol because it leads to heart disease, the government should not hold a drug control policy over Americans as well.
Whether it is a civil war or a world war, the results are always the same. ... Yet we still go to war. ... We go through something horrible such as the Vietnam War and now we find ourselves going to war again. ... However, sometimes war can not be avoided. ... However, it does not matter whether a person is in favor of or against war, one thing always holds true. ...
Something we find ourselves struggling with in the year 2001. ... The war was mainly fought by young men, 17-25, and it cost the lives of so many. ... Their brothers were fighting; the reporters were continuously updating the statistics on the underlying war against communism. ... The war on terrorism, I mean communism is the thing that got me. ... Between the war going on right now, the environmental destruction that has gotten far out of hand, and the mear ignorance of the society we have built for ourselves, it's defiantly time for a change. ...
" This quote best explains the reasons of Bosnian Serbs wanting to start a war against the Austrians. ... We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation. It is not against men that we fling our bombs, what do we know of men in this moment when Death is hunting us down-now we can destroy and kill, to save ourselves, to save ourselves and be revenged (113).... In whirling confusion my thoughts hum in my brain-I hear the warning voice of my mother, I see the Russians with the flowing beards leaning against the wire fence, I have a bright picture of a canteen with stools, of cinem...
Whilst traditionally the populace were supportive of Australians in war, many were opposed to the idea of Australia fighting what was believed to be someone else's war. ... It is partly true that Australia followed America to war in order to win favour with them, committing troops as "a continuing requirement for cold war" (Evans, page 218). ... Numerous rallies occurred, protesting against the war, and calling for peace. ... With the world an insecure place, more than ever before alliances were favourable, and supporting America in its crusade against communism was the easiest way of s...
The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... On the following day, May 1, Kent State University students following the steps of thousands of students all over the country protested against the war. ... Students often relied on ethical policies to stand against US intervention in VN, they protested against the devastation caused to civilians. ... The war at home was something that the Americans ourselves could not believe was such disastrous. .....
This was not the case during the war to end all wars. ... The soldiers rebel against everything they have learned about unit integrity, killing as many as possible in order to survive. ... The best, because they won the war and were fighting against an evil enemy, are perhaps the United States, France, and England; the worst being Germany. ... We must be careful how we approach them and how we carry ourselves after them. Otherwise, we have lost everything we hold dear and we will destroy the world and ourselves. ...
September 11, finally gave the United States or should I say Bush a reason to declare war on Iraq which brought America to its new destiny, because there will be serious change. ... In the broad spectrum of the world we have made ourselves tyrants and showed the great force which is America and we have established to the world our might. Showing that might have put us in danger of being attacked from any side for we have reestablished ourselves as a threat to the world. Really who would dare stand against us...
World War I was an international war centered in Europe that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. The war was fought between two rival alliances: the Allies (France, United Kingdom, Russian empire) against the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary). ... No longer do we lie helpless, waiting on the scaffold, we can destroy and kill, to save ourselves, to save ourselves and to be revenged" (Remarque 113). ... Before the war, Paul was unfamiliar with the horrors and hardships of war, and easily connected to modern society. ... The war guilt clause angered many Germans...