Opium Wars
NRO’s The Corner calls for the white globalization that should be in place to supersede the black globalization of Afghanistan’s opium trade.
So here we have a desperately poor country that has a crop for which there is a proven “legitimate” demand and for which it actually has some sort of competitive advantage (opium harvesting is labor intensive, and thus relies on cheap labor), but which is not allowed to sell that crop. That seems absurd.
-Shlok
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