Roedy Green wrote:
> Karzai's brother stands accused of involvement in the heroin trade.
>
> He denies it of course.
>
> This is so ridiculous.  The puritanical Taliban all but eliminated the
> heroin trade.  Karzai's government is made up of a coalition of drug
> and war lords.  Under Karzai's direction, the trade has regrown to the
> largest on the planet,  a trillion dollars a year.  Afghanistan now
> makes so much heroin, the world's junkies can't consume it all. They
> give the excess to children to create the next generation of junkies.
> "Cheese" (orange heroin) is an epidemic in Texas elementary schools.
>
> The entire Karzai economy is based on heroin. Karzai is the biggest
> drug dealer on the planet.  It may be, like some Mafia lord, Karzai
> never DIRECTLY gets his hands dirty, but he is the godfather.
>
> I feel so embarrassed and ashamed for my country.  We are killing and
> torturing innocent civilians, and taking loses ourselves to replace
> the whacko Taliban with the biggest drug dealer on the planet to act
> as puppet dictator for the USA.  This is hardly spreading democracy.
> It is more like the eternal shame of the British Opium wars.