Prisoner abuse and opium weigh heavy on the relationship between the U.S. and Afghan presidents. Mistreatment was an American abuse. The United States also shares the blame for opium production.
Most heroin sold in the world is believed to originate in Afghanistan. ... If the evil is to be fought, the Afghan drug barons must be caught. And farmers must see an alternative.
The warlords were allies against the Taliban. Now a central government is being built up. But the warlords took their small empires with them into the new time, and into the government.
(Afghan President Hamid) Karzai expressed shock over reports of two prisoners dying of abuse, and demanded control over the country's prisoners. That is no guarantee of better conditions, but shows the president's need for a better political situation.
Afghanistan needs a central power that can create a positive development.
That is not compatible with an opium economy and violations of prisoners' human rights. Both Karzai and U.S. President George W. Bush have a lot of work to do.
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