Quote Originally Posted by Dâriûsh
Great. So now all we have to do is get Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to legalize it.
No need, unless they want to buy it from us.

Not all of it is going to the European market, mind you.
If we're paying for it, it's going to us to be distributed however we see fit. The Afghans don't care which market it is going to, as long as they get paid for their crops.

And that's the start and end of it - they don't care what ostensible benefits we offer them, as long as we threaten their livelihood, and they won't care what governing system we impose on them (up to an extent), as long as they can make a living. Nothing pays them as well as growing opium, so that's what they do, and that's what we have to face up to.