KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 — Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year has reached the highest levels ever recorded, showing an increase of almost 50 percent from last year, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, said Saturday in Kabul.Feeling sleepy, my pretties? Don't take your eyes off the Oz (a free terror-free paradise where just a single, fey Border Patrol agent need slide open a peephole in the gate rudely to dismiss strangers). We'll get there, yet. Stay the course. Why? Because because because because because. Stay the course. Make use of allegory, of metaphor: put your English teachers to work! The flying monkeys are: monofascists. The wicked witches are: Nazis. Get it? Everybody!
He said the increase in cultivation was fueled by the resurgence of Taliban rebels in the south, the country’s prime opium growing region. As the insurgents have stepped up their attacks, they have also encouraged and profited from the drug trade, promising protection to growers if they worked to expand their opium operations.
“This year’s harvest will be around 6,100 metric tons of opium — a staggering 92 percent of total world supply. It exceeds global consumption by 30 percent,” Mr. Costa said at a news briefing.
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Oh shit! The West has a long and sad history where ever our desert boots stomped. I am certainly not going to comment about the state of the Iraqi democracy but just marvel the looming Afghanistan fiasco that is our making, too. The frigging plan must have been to go and uproot the poppy fields...and that's bloody it. If those gazillions or even some of it would have been invested in making sure that those peasants had something left to rely on, maybe all would be peaches'n cream compared to the present situation.
Oh well, maybe we can take old slogans such as; "Just say no to drugs", and everything will be honky doory again.
White lotus. Yam-yam. Shanghai Sally.
How about a slogan that has something to do with the belief that there are simple solutions to complex problems? Something along the lines of, I don't know, "We're off to see the Wizard"?
Joy Plant is indeed the Yam-yam of the masses.
Smack!?
Or mnoks?
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