When the vice-president of Afghanistan is a high-volume heroin dealer, I think it might be time to cut bait and run. I’d like to see Afghanistan become a stable country with a growing economy. But we are so far from seeing that become reality that we’re just kidding ourselves that we can significantly change things there. If we can’t prevent the country from being run by drug kingpins then we don’t have legitimate partners to work with. How do you ask a kid to risk his life to defend a government run by heroin dealers?
