PERUVIAN INCIDENT

Blame Falls Squarely On The Failed War On Drugs

The Peruvian air force or drug traffickers are not to blame for the tragic
incident that killed a Baptist missionary and her child - the blame falls
squarely on the U.S. government's lethal, destructive (and failed) war on
drugs.

Our representatives in government (politicians) are just as responsible for
the death of these innocent people as surely as if they had shot them down
themselves. American politicians created and funded the programs that waste
our tax money on a failed program (instead of helping those who need the
money, including Joe Taxpayer). They force their views upon other sovereign
nations in the form of blackmail. Now these same politicians must be held
accountable for the deaths of a Christian missionary and her daughter - no
matter how frantically they try to blame someone else.

I saw a quote from the Libertarian Party, of which I am a proud member:

"We don't need a detective to figure out who's to blame for this senseless
murder, all we need to do is look at U.S. House and Senate voting records."

"A very successful policy" are words attributed to Senator Lincoln Chafee
of Rhode Island, when discussing the shoot-first, ask-questions-later
policy that resulted in the murder of these two innocent people. How can he
justify that statement? In my opinion, our government's priorities are
wrong. What's more unfortunate to me, I believe that what will be
successful is the way our representatives will weasel out of their share of
the responsibility for their actions (and inaction, to end the war on drugs).

Brad Ashforth
Snohomish, WA