Afghanistan Claims Progress on Drugs .

Afghanistan Claims Progress on Drugs. Equating anti-drug and anti-terrorism efforts, Afghanistan’s interim government claimed Tuesday it had destroyed 25 percent of three provinces’ opium crop and confiscated enough opium from merchants to keep $8 million in heroin from the market. [AP World News]

Or in other words, 25% of the farmers in those provinces will be unable to provide for their families, who will be left to starve, and some number of merchants in a country with very little economy left are now ruined. I hope that the US government and their Afghan puppets are really proud of themselves.