Kerry on Iraq:
We do not need what President Bush has called “catastrophic success.” We need real success.
John Kerry criticized President Bush, who doesn’t believe America can win the war on terror.
Money quotes:
We do not need what President Bush has called “catastrophic success.” We need real success.
In an interview two days ago, the President said we can’t win the war on terror. I absolutely disagree. With the right policies, this is a war we can win, this is a war we must win, and this is a war we will win. We’re the can do people, and there’s nothing we can’t do if we put our mind and muscle into it. In the end, the terrorists will lose, and we will win. The future doesn’t belong to fear, it belongs to freedom.
Full text of Kerry’s American Legion speech.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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