Like this nation "threw the alcohol war under the bus"?
Not sure I understand what you mean.
I mean that the War on Drugs has all the practical and philosophical failings of the War on Alcohol aka Prohibition.
he presented this as a compromise, to let the Republicans win, even though, sneakily, he may actually want it for its own sake.
Very sneaky of him to devote only an entire chapter of his book (which one can read at https://books.google.com/books?id=mI1oBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT109&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4) to principled and policy reasons why the war on drugs should end (with only passing mention in that chapter of the political advantages).
You didn’t read what I wrote. Of course he was going to give reasons. My point, which I guess wasn’t explicit enough, was that this is what he wants for personal reasons. Same with gay marriage.
The pro-life issue doesn’t affect him personally that much, so I kind of doubt his pro-life dedication.
I don’t equate drugs and alcohol, either. That is just way too easy an comparison for pro-drug people to make.
It was quite a while ago that I read it but I remember that I didn’t find it convincing.