Wednesday September 2, 2009, 8:34 pm
""Afghan Opium Survey 2009," was released Wednesday in Kabul by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

The report reads like a John Le Carré spy novel. The headline is that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is down, but UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa (pictured above) also concludes the war-torn country now has its very own drug cartels; that insurgents are moving up the "value chain" in the drug trafficking business, not merely taxing supply (which they have done for years), but now working with criminal gangs and corrupt officials to produce, process, stock, and export opium. "

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Wednesday September 2, 2009, 9:16 pm
They're emulating corporate America; that's what happens when you try to install "democracy".