Drug Warriors = Taliban Lackeys

After years of hard work by drug warriors in Afghanistan, the country no longer produces 87 percent of the world's illicit opium. Now it produces 92 percent, according to the latest suspiciously precise estimate from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

On Tuesday, citing ties between opium trafficking and the Taliban insurgency, UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa called upon NATO forces in Afghanistan to get more involved in efforts to stamp out the opium trade. This is exactly the right strategy to pursue if the aim is to alienate the Afghan people, undermine their government, and strengthen the insurgency.

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I wonder how long it will be before some genius legislator puts forth a bill mandating death for possession of opium or any of its derivatives (heroin etc.) because "that is aiding and abetting TERRISTS!"

WAR AGAINST TERRORISM! WAR ON DRUGS! WAR ON POOR-NOGRAPHY! Our elected officials sure do love their wars. They have at least three that will never end as long as they have money to fight them. I read somewhere the other day that the cost of our crusade in Iraq has surpassed 400 BILLION dollars.

That is far beyond insanity.

We have homeless people, people who desperately need medical care and cannot afford it...the list goes on. Yet our elected officials insist on taking that money and throwing it into wars that defy all logic and that we cannot win. Heckuva job, guys!