Afghanistan: Drugs, Bases and Jails

[illbill]

http://www.realopinion.com/realboards/showthread.php?t=1898

<snip>If Iraq has been the disaster zone of Bush foreign policy, Afghanistan is still generally thought of as its success story -- to the extent that anyone in our part of the world thinks about that country at all any more. Before the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan experienced a relative flood of American attention. It was, after all, the liberation moment. Possibly the most regressive and repressive regime on Earth had just bitten the dust. The first blow had been struck against the 9/11 attackers. The media rushed in -- and they were in a celebratory mood.<snip>

http://www.realopinion.com/realboards/showthread.php?t=1898

[ogradda]

1. I hear they are going to have

a record crop of opium this year. Nice to know we helped somebody's economy.:eyes: