Call the Cops - Kabul 9-1-1

For years American and NATO forces have been doing the work of the Afghan Army in trying to hold back the Taliban and Islamist terrorists. We've done such a lack lustre job at battling the insurgency that we're now going to saddle those same troops with doing the work of the Afghan National Police service - drug interdiction.

NATO has finally taken the plunge, ordering its forces in Afghanistan to go after poppy cultivators, opium processors and traffickers associated with the Taliban. Putting that last little rider in ensures we won't be interfering with the opium interests of the central government and those warlords who aren't supporting the Taliban. I guess that means that Karzai's brother, Ahmed, won't have anything to worry about either.