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Thursday, November 18, 2004
American legacy in Afghanistan: Opium
This is lovely:
I don't understand how this administration is able to continually and continuously get away with incompetence. It truly is a "catastrophic success," as this President called it--we knocked out the Taliban (success) but have replaced it with an even worse mob/drug dealer/warlord rule (catastrophe).
Afghanistan is a “narco-” and as such a likely breeding ground for terrorists, Britain admitted on Thursday, after the United Nations reported a 64 per cent increase in opium cultivation.Link.
Three years after US-led forces ousted the Taliban, opium is the mainstay of the Afghan economy, accounting for more than 60 per cent of gross domestic product.
Britain, the lead nation in the anti-narcotics drive in Afghanistan, admitted that there was a risk of the opium boom re-creating the conditions that the “war against terror” was supposed to eliminate.
I don't understand how this administration is able to continually and continuously get away with incompetence. It truly is a "catastrophic success," as this President called it--we knocked out the Taliban (success) but have replaced it with an even worse mob/drug dealer/warlord rule (catastrophe).
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