SURRENDER NO WAY TO END DRUG WAR

After reading her column "Quietly end war on drugs," it's hard to believe
Cynthia Tucker is a native south Alabamian, educated at Auburn and a
supposedly responsible newspaper editor in Atlanta.

I'll just give you the response of my son, a DEA agent in Los Angeles: "Can
you imagine the chaos if the drug dealers were given more leeway on our
city streets?"

In every war there have probably always been those whose response to
hardship was to surrender. Tucker would have been right at home with some
of the '60s and '70s groups.

Kenneth C. Yohn

Montgomery