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Obviously, he means from the perspective of an economist, not a human being living in the midst of the drug hell that is being wrought upon the world by those in power.

Obviously not heaven, but pretty close. The DEA helped the Sinaloa cartel own 80% of the drug market in Chicago by partnering with it to eliminate its competitors:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sin...

This is a good article and describes how dynamic the drug war is. Currently the Sinaloa Cartel is really struggling to keep it to together, they can't even control their hometown of Culiacan.

The lack of a second '>' might have fooled you: sorry. The sentence is not mine, but Friedman's.