"The response of the apparatchiks is to increase the penalties until > we're all cowed, like they did in the old war on drugs.
As long as they are that successful, we don't have too much to worry about! Besides, the CIA ships more drugs into the US than all the other cartels combined." Uh...I'd point out that this is no coincidence. The Conpiracy Theorist would say that the War on Drugs was precisely the CIA's way to keep its own drug prices high and continue funding their own little activites. Oh, and aside from the fatass oil pipeline they've wanted to build in Afghanistan, guess another little resource that Afghanistan has produced in the past (and that the Taliban had cracked down on)? Yeah--you got it--Poppies...and now that the Warlords are back in charge the cash crop is back. TD PS: Hey! What a-hole equated hotmail with spam? Oh, right...I guess hotmail is pretty much Spam (even when it's not). But this is makin' me click more figgin' buttons on this computer...
