Well of course he is upset, just as the corner drug dealer in Chicago is upset when a competitor moves onto his turf.
The point is that the graft generated by rendering the drug trade illegal is so lucrative that politicians naturally want to protect their turf.
The war against drugs is over. We lost. Get over it.
The US guards the opium crop in Afghanistan because we leaned from our experience in Vietnam that contracting out the protection of the crop doesn't work. Guarding the opium crops around the world shows we never actually fought a war on drugs, we fought a war on unapproved competitors.
Surrendering is a lot easier than getting serious, though.
Pretty sure there will be some interesting revelations forthcoming after El Chapo trial. It already made public about the $100 million in bribes to the previous Mexican president but from what I hear, the courtroom was cleared when he started mentioning American politicians names and numbers...
Did it ever really start. I was in Just Because. It had more to do with a home video of GB humping a Nebraska cheerleader at the Hotel Panama than cocaine. But let’s not get into that. Check just where the first two bombs fell.
It was is and always will be a war on people to protect a criminal monopoly!