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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (2733)	1/21/2003 12:37:10 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

How Washington Funded the Taliban by Ted Galen Carpenter Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and is the author or editor of 14 books on international affairs including the forthcoming "Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America" (Palgrave/ St. Martin's). The United States has made common cause with an assortment of dubious regimes around the world to wage the war on drugs. Perhaps the most shocking example was Washington's decision in May 2001 to financially reward Afghanistan's infamous Taliban government for its edict ordering a halt to the cultivation of opium poppies. ... Yet the Bush administration did more than praise the Taliban's proclaimed ban of opium cultivation. In mid-May, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell announced a $43 million grant to Afghanistan in addition to the humanitarian aid the United States had long been providing to agencies assisting Afghan refugees. cato.org