A Quote for the Afternoon

by Mark Thompson

Via Brad Warbiany at the Liberty Papers.

Doug Bandow,David Rittgers, Cato@Liberty:

As I have said before, the quickest way to create an insurgent is to burn a man’s livelihood. This may be a competent counternarcotics tactic, but it is an epic failure as a counterinsurgency strategy. We can fight a war against the Taliban or we can fight the war on drugs, but we can’t do both in the same place at the same time.

UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that I attributed this quote to the wrong Cato scholar.  I apologize for the error.

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2 comments

1 Brad Warbiany { 05.06.09 at 11:35 am }

Mark,

Thanks for the link… Just want to clarify (for attribution purposes) that I’m quoting Doug Bandow, and that the above quote is not mine directly (although obviously, quoting it approvingly, I do agree).

Thanks!

2 Mark Thompson { 05.06.09 at 11:39 am }

Anytime, Brad! I was aware that the quote was Bandow’s, but my post formatted differently than I expected.