Those who want to see the so-called "war on drugs" fought with greater vigour might like to turn their attention to the Philippines at present.
There President Duterte is doing exactly that – fighting the war on drugs with all means available. The trouble is that many of the means he is using are illegal. The Philippines are becoming, as one archbishop puts it, a "killing field".
Does it matter when a government ignores due process and the rule of law, and starts to take out drug dealers and drug users by all means available, including motorbike-riding death squads? Those who think this way often quote the example of "the Iron Prefect" Ceasare Mori, the man appointed by Mussolini to govern Sicily in the 1920s, who supposedly crushed the mafia, at least for a time, using all available means.
