Barry McCaffrey
Barry McCaffrey
Barry Richard McCaffreyis a former United States Army officer, news commentator and business consultant. He received three Purple Heart medals for injuries sustained during his service in Vietnam, two Silver Stars for valor, and two Distinguished Service Crosses — the second-highest U.S. Army award for valor. He was inducted into U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame at U.S. Army Infantry Center at Fort Benning in 2007. He served as an adjunct professor at U.S. Military Academy and its Bradley Professor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.
We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.
Other treatments have been deemed safer and more effective than a psychoactive burning carcinogen self-induced through one's throat,
We've got to talk to parents who are taking their young people to an all-night rave and seeing police uniforms and believing that because it's quoted as alcohol-free that this is a safe environment. Their young people are at risk in that environment.
We came out of it with a firm commitment to continue to uphold federal law, to capture data on what starts to go wrong because of these two propositions, and we are going to attempt to educate other state authorities on what actually happened.
Will I prosecute? Go talk to the Attorney General and the U.S. Attorneys and the law enforcement officials, because on a case by case basis they will uphold the law.
We are now seeing a clear trend, ... Teen drug use is down significantly and rapidly for two straight years.
It's a national issue now. It's not just a California or an Arizona issue. We know that these proponents of drug legalization are promoting it in other states, too.