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
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.
We are now seeing a clear trend, ... Teen drug use is down significantly and rapidly for two straight years.
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.
I'm always concerned a bit about creative hypocrisy, because it's $49 billion of U.S. money on drugs that is acting as an engine drawing 60 percent of our own cocaine, marijuana, heroin coming through Mexico or adjoining Pacific or Caribbean waters.
Through substance abuse treatment we address a profound crisis in America, reducing the associated crime, stop the stress on our health system and the drain on tax revenues by restoring productivity, and return chronic addicts to sobriety.
We have made the drug criminals afraid. We will now make them disappear, ... and this is only beginning of it.
What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
There has to be strict compliance with safety concerns,
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.