If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.