Top Ten Drug War Stories of 2003
AlterNet.org lists The Top Ten Drug War Stories of 2003.
Afghanistan is now the world’s leading supplier of opium for the heroin trade. Under the Taliban regime, which banned opium, annual production bottomed out at 77 tons in 2001, produced only in areas controlled by the Northern Alliance. American military, as part of its “War on Terror,” allied with Northern Alliance warlords to overthrow the Taliban regime and keep Al Qaeda at bay. Afghan opium production has since skyrocketed to about 3,600 tons of opium this year, or 75 percent of global production.
Huh? You mean the War on Terror is undermining the War on Drugs?
Check the Drug War and Iraqi War clocks on the left side bar to get an idea of how much it costs taxpayers to have two wars working at cross-purposes.
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