"Biggest drug bust ever in Columbia County"

(Capital Times, Feb. 2): Meaningless victories are often more accurate gauges of the course of war than stinging defeats. Here we have an apparently unprecedented law enforcement success in arresting dealers of heroin and prescription narcotics, but does anyone really believe for a moment it will result in fewer users and less consumption? When success has no relevance, it's time to reconsider the war we are waging.