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...Drug Money Re Tim McGirk's article "Terrorism's Harvest" [Aug. 9]: President Bush says he has made America safer. But Afghanistan has been in chaos for years, and Iraq is a new breeding ground for terrorists. Now we learn that the Taliban is back and the opium trade is funding al-Qaeda. It is time that Americans look beyond tough talk. Matthew Ball Pittsburgh...
...principal source of funding for the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists." It's quite ironic that just a few months before we "liberated" Afghanistan by bombing it and sending in troops, we gave a $43 million grant to the Taliban for its splendid job in cutting back opium production. Yes indeed, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it with unaccustomed understatement, "Democracy is untidy." Tragically, Americans, Afghans and the rest of the world are paying the price for the untidiness that we have wrought. Might there have been a better way? Robert G. Newman, M.D. Director Baron Edmond de Rothschild...
...principal source of funding for the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists." It's quite ironic that just a few months before we "liberated" Afghanistan by bombing it and sending in our troops, we gave a $43 million grant to the Taliban for its splendid job in cutting back opium production. Yes indeed, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it with unaccustomed understatement: "Democracy is untidy." Tragically, Americans, Afghans and the rest of the world are paying the price for the untidiness that we have wrought. Might there have been a better way? ROBERT G. NEWMAN, M.D., DIRECTOR BARON EDMOND...
President Bush says he has made America safer. But Afghanistan has been in chaos for years, and Iraq is a new breeding ground for terrorists. Now we learn that the Taliban is back and the opium trade is funding al-Qaeda. It is time that Americans look beyond tough talk. MATTHEW BALL Pittsburgh...
...principal source of funding for the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists." It's quite ironic that just a few months before we "liberated" Afghanistan by bombing it and sending in troops, we gave a $43 million grant to the Taliban for its splendid job in cutting back opium production. Yes indeed, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it with unaccustomed understatement, "Democracy is untidy." Tragically, Americans, Afghans and the entire world are paying the price for the untidiness that we have wrought. Might there have been a better way? Robert G. Newman, M.D., Director Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency...