If you want to fight crime you reduce poverty. If want to fight crime you make each school in America a palace of learning. If you want to fight crime you eradicate unnecessary human suffering. If you want to fight crime you fight the origins of despair. You do not invade cities.
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We DID have a War on Poverty and it DID work.

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Really? Not so much!
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The War on Poverty was a war in only a metaphorical sense. The War on Terror has tried to be literal. The War on Drugs has had both aspects, but it too is often carried out like a literal war. There is probably some connection here to how (un)successful they have been.
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What displacing the homeless is handling it? Get out...
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Read up on LBJ.
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