Did you hear that Kazari declared a Jihad on Opium production? Jesus Christ! The area was a high production zone prior to Taliban. So these "poor" people have now gone back to its production.

Of course I do not support the production of drugs, but think about it -- these people in the fields, these people who claim they are "feeding their families" are the ones taking all the risk in this "pyramid".

The gov't destroys their $1,000/ kg crop -- they are left with zero cash crops. Therefore, an entire growing season (where they could have grown wheat, corn, etc --- forgetting the price difference for a moment) without anything to sell.

A family goes hungry. Money is lost in the local economy. Another family goes hungry.

My problems:
1) Calling it a Jihad is blasphemy
2) We need to work on the structure of the pyramid, but of course that would affect many of our “friends”!