"Zing" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"thunder" wrote in message
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I was wondering if zing could say with a straight face that the
economy's
doing well, when it's based on a drug which our gov't would stamp out
completely if it could.

Doug:

I was referring to the US economy in that post. Sorry for the confusion.

My point was Afghanistan is doing OK. The enemy is on the run, there is
relative peace (compared to the last 2 decades), some infrastructure is
being rebuilt, prospect for fair elections, though delayed are still real.
The general population seems to accept the Western security presence.
Sure,
the list of problems are huge, including the opium crop, but it's
comparative progress IMO.

Kind regards - Zing



The opium crop represents 65% to 80% of their GNP. They have almost nothing
else. If you consider that to be a healthy country, you'd probably be happy
living on an ice floe.