these kind of comment by people like alsop reveal my view of a narrow cultural mind set, too typical of this american establishment, which placed the primacy on the cost of the war, to the u.s. while callously ignoring the far more calamitous effect on the population of vietnam. alsop was not alone in using morbid analogies surrounding drugs reminiscent of the anslinger hey sdaheyday, the he the fbi from 19 -- federal bureau of narcotics, who was instrumental in drum up federal support for the war on drugs through the receiver madness campaigns, and, all kind of embellishments about the effects of mayor want. but, these reports, i'm trying to argue the reports in vietnam, that resembled his rhetoric and exaggeration, the readers digest, for example likened an opium den to a nazi death camp, and men were little more than skeletons, and staring blindly into space rising every 30 minutes to buy more drugs and the far eastern economic review editorialized addicted veterans was badly maimed from the wars, and while "the new york times," correspondent james rester wrote the drug crisis was