You cannot have a 'war' on a medical condition, namely addiction.
What we now have, inastead of police, is a Standing Army -- and the Founding Fathers of America warned us mightily against this.
Quite agreed.
You cannot have a 'war' on a medical condition, namely addiction.
Sure you can, it's just stupid to do so. ;)
But more seriously, IMO, is that there is no victory condition! Having been enlisted in the army myself, I find that to contemplate that is highly disturbing -- even moreso when thought of in RPG-game and philosophy terms: either it is a horrendous mistake equivalent to throwing your character into a no-win situation OR it is a devious and wholly immoral evil which is designed to sidestep "what the law says" in favor of "we feel..."
What we now have, inastead of police, is a Standing Army -- and the Founding Fathers of America warned us mightily against this.
Definitely; but we also have an actual standing-army: the active duty army. It "used-to-was" (before WWII) that there was no Regular Army, as such, but rather "the cavalry" (to use the old-west metaphor) was commissioned* for specific duties and its members were drawn from the militia of the Several States.
*funded, for not more than 2-years, as per the Constitution