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We must always take sides. Nutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented -- Elie Wiesel
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Taking the bloom off the poppy in Afghanistan --
By Commantary
from the April 01, 2004 edition
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Taking The Bloom off The Poppy
As Afghanistan's drug trade goes, so goes the country. It's a sad admission, but an honest one from President Hamid Karzai, who this week got to the essence of his nation's challenge by saying, "The fight against drugs is actually the fight for Afghanistan." Drugs generate over half of the country's national income, and Mr. Karzai rightly emphasized this crisis at a foreign donors conference on Afghanistan in Berlin, which ended Wednesday.
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