Ask any of the President's men about the Bush Administration's commitment to the war on drugs, and -- on the record, at least -- their answers will ring with phrases like "a threat to democracy," "highest priority," "top of our agenda."
"Hot air," scoffs outgoing U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab in a departing blast. "We are fighting an uninspired war of attrition. A war of words. The drug issue is not a priority right now. I don't think our Government, either in Congress or the Administration, has the stomach necessary to win this battle."
In his eight years as Customs...
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