Do I alone find it odd that as he gropes about for the elusive path out of the Pashtun thicket, Prez sees no contraindication to a drug policy that amounts to the expenditure of 80 billion public dollars to keep heroin expensive, and thus profitable to the Taliban

I confess to a personal bias—I am fond of a very sweet 21 yr old whose three year old daughter she cannot raise because she has contracted an expensive heroin habit.

If she could go down to the store and buy an ounce of heroin for $50.00 would the world end? Surely not, but we’d have a tax swing from negative to positive, my friend could limit her sex life to guys she really likes, as opposed to tricking, and Walid Karzai would have to start selling his skinny ass (win-win)

How bad is that?.

While we’re at it (legalizing smack), might as well legalize all the lesser drugs as well, or the Taliban will figure out some way to make money off of those and buy IED ingredients.

How can we turn our backs on a simple strategy for inflicting a crippling financial blow on our declared enemies?