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This is just another consequence of fighting a war on the cheap - destruction of what passed for central control by a government without even an attempt to replace it.

The Bush Administration has obviously concluded that an increase in opium production is am accetable price to pay for occupying Afghanistan without enough troops to counter it. This is a compromise that seems to reflect a change in national priorities.

The links between terrorism and the narcotics trade has been pretty well established by example in South America - neither group is particularly picky about who they will work with.

The idea that you can compare Canadian pot with opium is absurd at best. While I'm not aware of any government handing out crack pipes, needle exchanges serve a public health purpose. While it sounds good and fine to blame it on the U.N. (when in doubt, after all), Afghani opium production was long regarded as a problem by the United States.