Our Drug War Works About as Well Under Military Rule as Here

From the AP:

WASHINGTON - More than three years after installing a pro-U.S. government, Afghanistan (news - web sites) has been unable to contain opium poppy production and is on the verge of becoming a narcotics state, a presidential report said Friday.

The report said the area in Afghanistan devoted to poppy cultivation last year set a record of more than 510,000 acres, more than triple the figure for 2003. Opium poppy is the raw material for heroin.

The Afghan narcotics situation "represents an enormous threat to world stability," the report said.

It listed opium production at 5,445 tons, 17 times more than second-place Myanmar.

The amazing part here isn't that opium production is going nuts there, considering we give Afghans nothing else they can reasonably do with their time and resources besides get slaughtered.

Nah, the truly amazing part is that after our taxpayer-funded trip there by Rush Lamehog... er, Rush Limbaugh (in which by his own admission he repeatedly LIED to troops there telling them they have NO support at home), that this greedy bastard left ANY opium there for anyone else. Rush does heroin like a bird, consuming several times in his corpulent body weight in the stuff everyday.