[humanrebar]

> The war on drugs is not a war that soldiers fight.

There are a lot of decapitations and mass graves for something that isn't a war. If the people fighting aren't soldiers, what are they?

[ptaipale]

Criminals.

(By the way, soldiers generally don't decapitate enemies these days; doing so is a war crime.)

[natermer]

Carrying out and enforcing immoral laws makes you as much of a criminal as anybody.

The police state doesn't carry out showy public executions like the cartels do, but they have ruined many people's lives for no good reason and they have put plenty of otherwise innocent people in a grave.

And guess what? The American people pay for both sides. They pay for the cartels and they pay for the police state.

If the war on drugs never existed there wouldn't be any cartels in the first place. It's pure idiocy compounded with greed and profiteering on other people's misery.

You can't have the one of the highest percentage of the population in prison and call yourself a free country. It's bold faced contradiction. The USA beats out Turkmenistan FFS.

[humanrebar]

Fair point. Though calling those actions war crimes strengthens the point that there is actually a drug war going on.

[ptaipale]

When drug lords decapitate people, I don't call it a war crime. Just crime.

If soldiers wage war and then decapitate people (like Daesh does) then that's a war crime.