The Good We Do

Kristof reports and comments on the fact that opium production in Afghanistan has soard by a factor of 19, from 185 metric tons in 2001 to 3600 in 2003, the second largest in Afgahn history. The net of the illicit production is twice the budget of Hamid Karzai's government.

He also mentions that the Taliban and conservative mullahs are having a resurgence. It's Columbia, and we haven't done anything about it -- and, yes, it's our responsibility to, since the country is de facto under our control.