Our Lives In The Bush Of Ghosts: The Mystery Of The Afghan Opium

Not really a mystery, I suppose. So, recently our client state of Afghanistan under the presidency of Hamid Karzai had the good fortune of producing a bumper crop of opium, perhaps the largest in its agricultural history. What has become of it? Where did it go? Who is enjoying it now? The entire situation is menacingly farcical: our Afghan ally producing opium to poison our cities...and we cannot do anything. The only thing the government can do is hope that no one notices. This was my tax dollars at work. In the Bush world of ghosts, there are NO good options; all the forks in the road lead to a sovereign and malignant ghost.