America frustrated by Britain’s refusal to spray opium crops.
Perhaps the Americans ought not to be the only ones suffering frustration and irritation at Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s refusal to countenance the spraying of Afghan poppy fields with herbicides. The South Shields MP believes there are better ways to get the Aghans “on side”, but would this be at the expense of helping to foster a stronger drugs and crime racket in the UK? Heaven knows the west has enough problems created by the illicit import of narcotics, this year Afghanistan has seen a record crop of poppies and the profits are there to be made from those wishing to process the crop to suit the heroine dealers. The profit is then used to bribe officials and politicians, and yet the Foreign Secretary sees it as one of his aims to reduce the amount of inherent corruption within the Afghan government.
Just how he will manage that whilst allowing the warlords to control the poppy fields is beyond me.
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