In any war there must be enemies. In the War on Drugs the enemies are most often children like the ones Detective-Sergeant Gillespie could not rescue or rescued too late. They are not the generals, of course, the masterminds, or the profiteers. They are the foot soldiers, the ones who live in the trenches—and as in all wars, they are the ones who suffer and die. Or they become what the military calls collateral damage.
