Barry McCaffrey

The solution to our

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration. Barry McCaffrey

We’ve got a national

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. Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors. Barry McCaffrey

The United States and

The United States and Mexico are trapped – economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime – in the same continent. Barry McCaffrey

I’m a professor of

I’m a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does. Barry McCaffrey

Extremely disappointed that corruption

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico. Barry McCaffrey

Thank God we’re going

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. Barry McCaffrey

If you want to

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children. Barry McCaffrey

At the end of

At the end of the day…if your army won’t fight, it’s because they don’t trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don’t trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don’t think we’ve got any options and we’d be ill-advised to start bombing where we … Read more

We say in a

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 Barry McCaffrey