10. Since Nixon declared war in 1971, the United States has been engaged in a “War on Drugs.”

We fight it every day and on almost every street in the United States. We spend billions patrolling boarders looking for drug smugglers, finding dealers, busting users, and incarcerating just about everyone we can locate who is involved in the drug trade. Yet, only about 10 percent of Americans believe we are winning the war. Many more consider it to be a multi-billion dollar failure. Why? Because as much as we invest in trying to stop drugs from coming into the United States, people who use the drugs are willing to pay more to get their supply—and increased revenue means drug smugglers can develop better and more sophisticated technologies. Planes, boats, and now even submarines are being used to get drugs into the country. Our own addiction has created a demand that will always overwhelm our ability to win the war. We need to take on a different approach. Some say legalize all of it—maybe that is the answer. But whatever approach we take must be taken within the United States to curb demand from illegal sources.

Cultural Arguments. above is a passage. Each uses one of the four methods for stating a point of view described in Box 3.2. These ways of organizing speech are deductive, inductive, abductive, and narrative. For each passage, identify the pattern used and justify your selection. What is the stated or implied viewpoint of the writer or speaker? How does he or she support it?