It's Time to Lighten Up With Heroin

I knew the war on drugs was real, but never has it felt like its loss would be doomsday.  For the inhabitants of Juarez, Mexico the recently released film "Sicario" depicts it that way.  Being cast as an action thriller helps explain the dire nature of its plot.  Murderous cartel leaders are a heinous breed, and in today's political climate it is difficult to discern their activity from that of Islamic Extremists.  Beheading is a common thread which helps blur the boundary between them.  Possibly the drug cartels in Mexico desire the same amount of power wielded by armed Islamic Militants.  Maybe all ready they have it.  Who is to say which professions earns the most capital, heroin production and sales, or black market oil?  It is all intertwined, and poppy production in Afghanistan is part of it.  The question lingering in my mind is is the War on Drugs equal to the War on Terrorism?  It seemed like it after seeing  "Sicario."  After reflecting I understand now the film was penned majorly through the eyes of a former Mexican prosecutor whose wife and daughter were murdered by a cartel drug lord.  It was personal, but America's War on Drugs is not.  Drugs in America, especially heroin, symbolically do not represent murderous violence.  They represent an escape from a brutal reality created by a political regime administered by George W. Bush.  It is not unlike violent murderous drug cartels or Islamic terrorists.  W. created this era of terrorism on a grander scale than existed before in America.  Globalism fueled it.  Greed has propelled it.  At one point my intent was to characterize America today without George. It would be easy.  The Clinton's "Multiculturalism" would have continued.  Art would have continued.  Instead today we are on a path of destruction and desolation.  Films like "Sicario" do not help.  With a change of ownership of American film studios, culture in America is being influenced in a detrimental way.  George created a culture of "Fear and Intimidation" but the film studios seem to be continuing it.  I had to sort out my feelings at the end of the film and realize the War on Drugs is not one of life and death.  It was for Alejandro Gillick, an ex-prosecutor of the drug regimes in Juarez, Mexico.  It is easy to internalize the sentiments of cinema into your own sensibilities, but murderous revenge is a bit of a stretch for the average American.  It suggests otherwise, as do many America-made films these days.  Movies are continuing the Campaign of Fear and Intimidation.  I learned some things by watching "Sicario."  I got a glimpse into the seedy underworld of counterterrorism.  I felt I was watching Blackwater during the War in Iraq.  I began to understand the role of a security force in foreign wars.  It is one big cess pool.  It is interesting how providing a euphoric escape for  poor hopeless Americans begins with murderous violence in Mexico and Afghanistan.