WFB was by this time coming to the position that the war on drugs was doing

more harm than good. Mayor Koch had come to the position that we had not yet begun to fight, and he had offered, in the New York Times, his own battle plan, which included full-scale military interdiction. A serious (but far from low-key) discussion of a serious problem. EK: "We can't wait! The numbers that are now using drugs are growing every day. The federal figure is that 5,000 people who never used cocaine before will use it today, and 5,000 new ones to be added will use it tomorrow and every single day. Can we permit that to go on?" "I'm a supporter of the military, I believe the Soviet Union's a threat to the free world, I don't want us ever to be second best. Nevertheless,... the Russians are not coming at the moment; I hope they never come; we have to be prepared in the event they were to come. But we know the drug pushers have come, are coming,

and will continue to come, and that this society is being destroyed."