Afghan Opium production is reaching new highs (forgive the pun). Didn't we pay the Taliban something like $43 million dollars to not produce Opium about six months before we turned the country into a JDAM practice-range?

I think so.

But, now we all get to sit here and watch as the country we can bomb but not support after destruction, gets turned into a major supplier of Opium.

Antonio Maria Costa warned the UN Security Council that the government's commitment to eliminate drug production by 2013 and prohibit the drug trade will only succeed "if security and stability spread throughout the country."

Afghanistan's production of poppies, from which opium is made, stood at an estimated 3,400 tonnes last year.

"The task to rid Afghanistan of the drug economy requires much greater political, security and financial capital than presently available, to assist the rural areas affected by opium production and, above all, to improve the central government's ability to implement its opium production ban," he said.

Yeah, I wonder who might have once promised "greater political, security, and financial capital" to the Afghani people once upon a time. I guess he did not really mean it since he wasn't on an Aircraft Carrier with a big "Mission Accomplished" sign up there on the island.