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Cato on Campus and D.C. Forum for Freedom invite you to a Student Forum
An Effective State is a Limited State: Why Ending the War on Drugs and the War on Terror Is a Good Step
Student Forum
Friday, March 26, 2010
4:00 PM (Reception to follow)
Featuring Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and author of The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free; and Juan Carlos Hidalgo, Project Coordinator for Latin America, Center for Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.
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The American Founders set forth a Constitution that aimed to limit the reach of government into people’s lives. Over the past half century, those limits have rapidly eroded. This has occurred both locally and internationally, as the world has grown more interconnected. The War on Terror and the War on Drugs have seen government advance well beyond its intended bounds. In order to preserve a future of liberty and prosperity, steps must be taken now to arrest the evolution of the State.
Christopher Preble will discuss how America’s self-appointed role as global policeman seems destined to continue despite a crippling price tag. The costs are measured in blood and treasure, but also in the changes to our system of government—which was originally designed to avoid unnecessary wars. As a new approach, the U.S. should adopt a more stringent form of selective engagement for U.S. military forces.
Juan Carlos Hidalgo will present how the international war against the black market trade in narcotics seems to be at a tipping point, as a new approach is gaining traction globally: decriminalization. More and more policymakers around the world are coming to the view that it is wrong to incarcerate nonviolent drug users. The costs of the drug war have clearly exceeded any perceived benefit. Just as alcohol prohibition was a mistaken approach to the problem of alcoholism, so, too, is the drug war a mistaken approach to drug abuse.Registration
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