Thursday May 15, 2008, 2:17 am
The world economy wouldn't collapse. However, the U.S. empire would weaken. Why? Because the CIA gets a significant amount of its money from the drug trade... and because certain U.S. puppet regimes rely on heroin and cocaine trade (e.g. the rightwing paramilitaries and much of the rightwing government in Colombia; and the Northern Alliance warlords in Afghanistan)... and because U.S. imperialism relies on a phony "war on drugs" as a phony cover for their support for oppressive and exploitative capitalist regimes in Latin America (especially in Colombia, but also Peru), and as cover for the U.S.A.'s own oppressive actions against the people's movements in Latin America.