i've been enjoying the online-only "correspondent's diary" [1] daily feature on economist.com. their defence correspondent highlights the hypocritical western policy in afghanistan on "substance abuse" (the economist is a big proponent of the legalisation of drugs): --- Few people in Kabul want the return of the Taliban. There has been progress of a kind. Now the city can grapple with the modern ill of traffic jams. The markets are full of goods and people to buy them. Many seem happy for international forces to stay. But the foreigners’ degenerate ways have not gone unnoticed. “They are encouraging people to drink alcohol,” says one veteran Afghan journalist, “but they are stopping Afghans from growing poppies that provide livelihoods for their families.” --- http://economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?subjectid=7933598&story_id=8691739
1. http://economist.com/daily/diary
