[. . .]
"In Afghanistan, drugs are now a clear and present danger," said Antonio Maria Costa, director of the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime, on the release of the 2004 Afghanistan opium survey. "The fear that Afghanistan might degenerate into a narco-state is becoming a reality."
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"What we have here now is a narco-economy where 40 to 50 percent of the GDP is from illicit drugs," said the Kabul-based official. "The heroin traffickers are naturally interested in supporting terrorism and doing what they can to destabilize the central government because the last thing they want is the establishment of the rule of law. In those terms, it is a matter of national security to the U.S. and Europe." [my emphasis]
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Story.
Good thing the Taliban are gone, 'cause they got in the way of free trade. See what happens when people are free.
You know, if we would have dedicated half the resources to Afghanistan we did to Iraq, we could probably call the operation there a success story. Instead, Bush cheaped out, saving everything but a token force for Iraq, and now the drug lords are more powerful than Karzai. He'll probably be dead a year from now anyway and some other cutthroat in his place. The ineptitude of the Bush administration knows no limits.
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