Hitchens: piece in Slate

http://www.slate.com/id/2201622/

Hence the interview on Morning Joe ....

He argues in essence that we ought to exploit the opium harvest in Afghanistan to make actual opiate-bsed drugs (rather than funding Turkey to do this) ... and so stop the profits being diverted to the Taliban/Al Quaeda ....

At last intelligent practical thoughts about Afghanistan ... and the realisation that the strategies of Iraq cannot be exported there ....

Still .... could the yanks ever go for the War on Terror over the War on Drugs?