Interesting the history of US military actions and drug producing allies in the various struggles.

In Vietnam, our Laotian allies were purportedly involved in heroin production. All sorts of the allegations about CIA helicopters being used for occasional transport. Ditto with the Contras. Our Northern Alliance allies in Afghanistan had a known history in drug trafficing, and whattaya know, they're back at it.

Not that I think the temporary Taliban enforced halt to drug production in, I forget exactly, the late 90s would have lasted. Those guys would have gone for some of that cash soon enough, as they are supposedly doing now.

The part that kills me in that article is the suggestion to make the Kabul-Kandahar Highway into a toll road. I mean, I can see the logic of it -- the tax base can't be too strong and these things don't get built on wishes, but the timing for such an idea is, uhhh, not real good.

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