Afghanistan Is A Resounding Success!

by tristero

If you’re in the opium trade, that is.

It is a measure of this country’s virulent opium trade, which has helped revive the Taliban while corroding the credibility of the Afghan government, that American officials hope that Afghanistan’s drug problem will someday be only as bad as that of Colombia.

And where have I heard something like this before?

… the C.I.A. and military turned a blind eye to drug-related activities by prominent warlords or political figures they had installed in power, Afghan and American officials say.

Hmmm, the CIA, looking the other way when it comes to drug activities of the thugs they’re propping up…Yep, it does ring a bell…Oh, right. Funny how history repeats itselt, inn’t? And if memory serves me well, there even was one of those Bush varmints skittering about somewhere near the White House back then, even if he wasn’t yet president (and let’s be fair, wasn’t “in the loop” on Iran/Contra. Of course not- a Bush involved in something totally sleazy and illegal? Please.) . Not to mention other folks, like Abrams, who is back in the Executive branch, and who was also involved in Iran/Contra back then.