Building a decent, safe society for all the world to see will do more for our people's security and our foreign policy than the billions of dollars of arms trading we are doing today. While law enforcement is chiefly the job of state and local governments, there are some more direct things a President can do against crime. The first one is to get into the fight on drugs. We need to use common sense. Not the poor.
Doctors are more likely to become addicts than any other group in society.
For the simple reason that when drugs are there, they will be used. Your Congressman Charlie Rangel has done a great job calling attention to how little is being done to cut off the flood of hard drugs. It's time we had a President who will listen to him. If we can get a man to the moon, we can develop the technology to search out and detect smuggled drugs. If we can improve relations with Russia and China, we can use our diplomatic and economic leverage against Turkey and Mexico and the other countries that funnel hard drugs into the streets of Harlem.