Drug war worse than drugs

Re: "Exodus -- Families and businesses alike flee the embattled city
of Juarez for safer, greener pastures in the U.S.," Sunday news story.

The excellent, depressing report by Alfredo Corchado outlines yet
another unintended consequence of our wonderful drug war.

As a police officer who worked the trenches of the drug war spanning
three decades, I saw it cause more pain, suffering and death than the
drugs themselves.

Howard Wooldridge, Dallas