TO:  Letter to the Editor      

SUBJECT:  Use Smart Bombs And Special Op Forces On Drug Cartels

The July 22, 1998 broadcast from Atlanta of CNN's Talk Back 
Live focused on the increasing drug usage of teenager.  The 
program was preempted by the recent sting operation in Texas and 
mass drug bust of dealers distributing heroin to teens.  This 
should be a wake up call to parents everywhere that we are far 
from solving the drug abuse problem.  Every day illicit drug 
usage is destroying the lives of young adults, teens and even 
children.  When are we going to hear the call, wake up and do 
something to stop this insanity?

Sorry, but I do not believe drug rehab. programs based upon 
God's forgiveness and Jesus Christ's salvation forced down 
convicts throats are the answer.  You can't save a dead child who 
ODed on heroin with any amount of religion given to their 
killers.

Modern drug rehab. programs which work are based upon 
intervention and preventing illegal substances from ever getting 
into the hands of young people and children.  You do not deal 
with dealers by in and out of jail merry-go-round programs.  You 
go to the source wherever it is and blow away the factories and 
distribution centers which produce and market heroin and cocaine.  
If that means smart bombs on the factories and headquarters of 
jungle based drug cartels in Columbia or other South and Central 
American drug breweries, so be it.  A bomb up the ass is an 
international language that needs no translation!  Everyone 
understands that it means STOP!

When heroin and cocaine dealers invade America it is the same as 
if a foreign government sanctioned an army of mercenaries to 
destroy our children.  The response should be similar and 
on the same scale as that levied against Iraq and Saddam Hussein 
in Desert Storm.  Our resolve should be that any foreign nation 
which permits drug dealers to invade America is committing an act 
of war against the United States.  Given said notice our response 
should be a military one to seek out and destroy drug cartels 
wherever they reside even if it be in the darkest heart of the 
Amazon.

Waiting until drugs reach America and kill our children is a 
fool's folly.  The drug invasion will stop only when the drug 
cartels know there is no where they can hide from smart bombs and 
special operations forces bent upon their extermination!

Sincerely, 
Terry Lynch 
Montgomery, AL 
DATE:  July 22, 1998