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Article: `Drug czar' reaches beyond battlefield rhetoric
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 10, 1996
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The business suit and civilian trappings fool no one. Barry R.
McCaffrey, the latest of the so-called "drug czars," is still Gen.
McCaffrey. His bearing, the snap-to deference of his aides, his
clipped language all combine in a way that almost makes an old
draftee want to shout the "tenHUT!" warning that top brass is on
the scene.But manner aside, the words over a brown-bag lunch in
McCaffrey's office are decidedly unmilitary. No key targets, no
grand strategies, no talk of final victories.
He won't even use the familiar "war on drugs" terminology.
"That kind of language suggests you're going to go out and defeat
an enemy and then be able to go on to other problems," he says. ...