Opium Booming in Afghanistan Under U.S., NATO Noses

The insurgents will win in Afghanistan if something isn't done to stop that countries' flourishing Opium cultivation. It is this crop that is paying for the Taliban growing resistance to the U.S. and NATO forces. It is happening because Bush is essentially ignoring the war in that country in favor of Iraq. And because the administration gives less significance to the Afghan war the Taliban will have the resources to defeat the West. And losing in Afghanistan will mean cheap Heroin on the streets of America:

Afghan farmers now planting opium poppies will probably reap a harvest comparable to this year's record crop, in part because insurgents control wide swaths of the south, preventing effective counter-narcotics work, officials said Thursday.