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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Is corruption in China the same as the US led "war on drugs"?
Too many vested interests involved (money) for both to change anything?
Wow Dude - I never thought about it like that but I think you nailed it! Great analogy
Yeh, I don't buy the war on corruption any more than I buy the war on drugs; it's just a bent copper with a roll of stolen money in his back pocket vowing to catch the thief. I did like Bill Hicks take on the war on drugs: back in the day when Bush declared that America was 'losing' the war on drugs, Hicks answered "So there's a war being fought! And people 'on drugs' are winning it!"
Fair point, I think you're correct Dude.
It is certainly the main thing holding China back (in my opinion of course), sort that one out the rest will follow.
You know what, I think that the war on drugs will end in my life time. There has been a great deal of motion on this on the state and local level through the approval of medical marijuana, which is intended to be to a way for pot smokers to smoke pot legally in the same way that a drunk would use a brown paper bag to get away with drinking in public. Eventually, politicians at the federal level are going to realize that there isn't a lot of down side in terms of votes to abandoning the war on drugs, and federal drug prosecutions will decrease dramatically as they cut funding to various bloated federal law enforcement institutions and rout that money back to local police departments. I'm not sure that the problem of corruption in government here in China will go away so easily or so quickly.
As far as I'm concerned anybody going into battle high on drugs has some serious cahoonas. Send them over here, it might work.
mArtiAn:
Hey, you had me at cahoonas. (Yeh, I know, lame effort but i've got some catching up to do).