Afghan's growing problem

The bumper crop of poppies in Afghanistan is bad, bad, bad on many levels, not least of which is how the opium trade creates rampant corruption. This is not a problem that US officials can be addressed on a part-time basis, after all the Iraqi agenda items are given attention.

Comments

[TCO]

I can't understand your last sentence. Please rewrite. I think you must be missing a word or two.

It's not our country. We need to stop worrying about controlling everything in the world. If they want to grow dope, God bless 'em. If we don't like dope smoking in our country, do like the Singaporeans or Saudis and punish the users. The whole "interdiction" mindset whether dope or Mexicans is a joke.

[TCO]

I can't understand your last sentence. Please rewrite. I think you must be missing a word or two.

It's not our country. We need to stop worrying about controlling everything in the world. If they want to grow dope, God bless 'em. If we don't like dope smoking in our country, do like the Singaporeans or Saudis and punish the users. The whole "interdiction" mindset whether dope or Mexicans is a joke.

[J.]

That's an insane suggestion, TCO. More than 80 percent of the world's opium comes from Afghanistan, and it fuels the Taliban's arms and agression in that country. It is our problem. To what degree we solve that problem internally and externally to the United States, that's the point of debate.