The Devil in the Details, Again
by J. R. Nyquist
Weekly Column Published: 11.02.2007
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The Drug problem criminalizes the economy, corrupts officials, and finances terrorism. I am absolutely certain that the terrorists who brought down the World Trade Center towers were financed by drug money and other illegal sources of revenue.
- Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
The problem of terrorism and rogue states is linked with the problem of drug trafficking, organized crime, nuclear proliferation and the ongoing campaign of Russia and China to displace the United States as the world’s leading power. While the dollar falls and the American economy begins to breakdown, consider whether the erosion of national character is connected to recreational drug use – and whether recreational drug use has been encouraged by hostile powers.
The West refuses to confront Russia and China on their strategic use of organized crime, drug trafficking and terrorism. This refusal stems from an unwillingness to confront the corruption that has spread through all levels of Western society itself. The demand to feel good has progressively triumphed over everything else. One may talk about the nefarious drug criminals and their smuggling operations. But an entire society has been colluding with them for decades. Simply look around at your inner cities, even at small towns and rural areas. Disintegration is advancing and illegal drugs are involved. Americans have passed through an era of collapsing authority and collapsing values in which the traditional family structure has been damaged. So many rules have been disregarded and upended. And we are all party to it. We are carried along by a floodtide of social logic, and drugs have been part of this logic. David Callahan has written a book titled
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get
Ahead. The statistics about cheating in school are an open scandal. Consider corporate corruption and government corruption. “When cheating becomes so pervasive, that the perception is that ‘everybody does it,’ a new ethical calculus emerges. People place themselves at a disadvantage if they play by the official rules rather than the real rules.”
Worse yet, cheating involves us in self-deception. This may include the justification of a suicidal trade policy with China, a suicidal immigration policy and a refusal to build up civil defense. The reason for suicidal national policies is simple: Each policy advances a hedonistic shopping mall regime in which cheap imports and cheap labor trump the safety and security of our children and grandchildren. And everybody is going along to get along. Everybody wants a good time. Everybody is “doing it.” Hedonism is front and center when it comes to America’s core problem. As a nation we are spending too much time with television, we are eating too much, and we are enjoying too many drugs – legal and illegal.
There has to be a new understanding in the United States, especially when it comes to illegal drugs. Those Americans who use drugs are part of the terror problem. They contribute to the ongoing collapse of American security. Deny it as you will, but money spent on recreational drug use goes to terrorists and foreign-allied criminal cartels. According to Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., author of
Red Cocaine: the drugging of America and the
West, Russia and China dominate the international drug trade and thereby gain entry to the American economy and political system through a backdoor. The potential for sabotage, subversion and political influence operations against a country like America is thereby enlarged. According to defector testimony, the Russians have been penetrating the drug trade and organized crime for half a century. “Drugs and narcotics trafficking are, as the case with all intelligence operations, incorporated into the entire planning process [in Russia],” noted Douglass. “The long-term plan establishes the priorities and cooperation for the development of science and production of narcotics and drugs. The target countries and their order of priority are identified. The long-term [Russian] plan describes how the distribution networks in different countries will be developed and when and how to exploit their vulnerabilities. The short-term plan is more specific and tactical. It specifies which groups to cooperate with; who the agents are; and what the production and shipping schedules are.”
Afghanistan now supplies 85 to 90 percent of the world’s opium and heroin. You can bet that Moscow is involved – that Moscow’s hold over key Afghan tribal leaders is decisive. After so much blood and treasure has been spent, America’s campaign in Afghanistan has failed. We are defeated. The same process has been advancing in Latin America for many years. Consider the advance of Communism in Colombia and Bolivia. It is all about drugs, organized crime and terrorism. And America’s taste for drugs is fueling the enemy’s advance. The United States is unable to stop the flow of opium from Afghanistan and cocaine from Colombia because Americans are the world’s number one consumers of illicit narcotics.
Do our strategists realize what has happened? Do our strategists see how “the cheating culture” progressively leads to national defeat and the destruction of Western Civilization? The enormous wealth created by selling drugs necessarily translates into enormous bribes and rampant corruption. Too many people imagine that the growing hedonism of Americans is not a serious problem. But consider how hedonism is a border control problem. It is a government corruption problem. It is also, therefore, a blackmail problem – because officials who take bribes are also subject to blackmail.
The folks who are enraged about the oil companies need to turn a little rage toward the druggies. If you use illegal drugs you are enriching criminals who will spread corruption to the police, to the town councils and county supervisors, to Congressmen and Senators. Even if your little marijuana habit isn’t making you fat, lazy and stupid, your drug of choice nonetheless contributes to the nation’s unraveling. Consider who launders the drug money, who becomes dirty and subject to criminal control (and control by hostile foreign intelligence agents).
I once asked a high-ranking Russian defector how the Russian military planned to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the United States in advance of World War III. He said, “Along the same routes used by drug traffickers.”
Our strategic problem is connected to our drug problem.
Copyright © 2007 Jeffrey R. Nyquist
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