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...benevolence, the Afghan people have found a not-so-new way to get by in a country so ravaged by decades of war that the $75 billion Bush is spending on Iraq would nearly quintuple their GDP. Without the foreign aid they need, the Afghan people have turned to opium cultivation. Afghanistan produced nearly 4,000 tons of opium—75 percent of the world supply—in 2000, before the Taliban nearly ended production in 2001. With the Taliban gone and their economy in shambles, Afghanis are going back to the one industry that hasn?...
...Afghan drug trade is back in a big way, according to an article buried in the World News Briefs section of The New York Times. Afghan farmers produced 2,400 tons of opium in 2002, and that number is said to be growing rapidly. And who can blame them? The Bush administration didn’t even propose a humanitarian aid package for Afghanistan in 2002. While the administration found hundreds of billions of dollars for the wealthiest American taxpayers, they couldn’t seem to scrounge up anything for the poorest of the world’s poor...
...also said the country could return to a narco-mafia state controlled by terrorist organizations, warlords and opium traffickers...
...Among the film's revelations: that Charles, who in Jackie's youth was a cook in the U.S. embassy in Hong Kong, had earlier served as an enforcer for Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang (KMT); that Jackie's mother had peddled opium; that from earlier marriages each parent had two children, whom they deserted in their postwar flight to Hong Kong...
...Wuhu, Charles was patrolling the waterfront when he saw a woman holding opium. Rather than arrest her, he let her go. That woman was Lily Chan. Lily, whose first husband had died in a Japanese bomb raid, was an aptly roguish match for Charles; she "walked like a hood," he says, and was a devout gambler. Soon Charles had a new family: Lily and her daughters, Yulan and Guilan...