[Mb-civic] Alternet: Cultivating Opium, Not Democracy

Sat Nov 27 11:03:56 PST 2004

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CULTIVATING OPIUM, NOT DEMOCRACY

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Cultivating Opium, Not Democracy
http://www.alternet.org/story/20582

In the opium haze that threatens to swallow up Afghanistan's vaunted rebirth, it is only the illusion of progress  &#8211;  not progress  &#8211;  that is being sold.
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