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To: TimF who wrote (12112)	11/30/2001 1:37:26 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>"$43mil sent to support our efforts against opium and heroin production, was in this case stupid, but it doesn't make us the Taliban's sponsor any more then the hundreds of millions of humanitarian aid does..." You're right. And it does. Unless you believe so-called humanitarian aid has been accurately spent by demagogues and warlords... a rather speculative thought. Without full transparency and public oversight these funds fungibly find their way into the darker recesses. There is no transparency with royals or warlords. (Or the American Presidency, of late.) Without transparency, there's corruption, inevitably. >"If by this you mean that if we drasticly drop our oil use and important none for the ME and if we decriminalize drugs that democracy would spread through the middle east, then I disagree. " That's a good issue to debate. Imagine hundreds of billions less $$ to the M.E. You'd get less of this: sfgate.com