Yahoo!, indeed. It's ironic that the article compares this possible peace maneuver in the drug war to the end of the Vietnam era, since you'd have to go back to the 1960s and '70s and the war in Southeast Asia to find another U.S. policy that was so bungled with such negative consequences for so long. The notion of draconian prison sentences, instead of drug rehab, for addicts and small-time users -- a policy implemented with extreme racial bias -- has destroyed lives, families, and even some neighborhoods. The billions that America has wasted on massive prisons while allowing neighborhood schools to crumble is a monument to the epic smallness of modern politics.