Pashtunistan

Land of the Pashtun people. 2500 years of north-western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.

Karzi's brothers supposedly in drug trade.

Narco-trafficking (heroin) supports the Taliban and controls Pashtunistan. Hitchens says buy up the dope and use it for pharmaceuticals or just destroy it. It's only profitable because of the drug's illegality. Either buy it for a fair (black market) price or give them something else to grown and initially subsidize it--farmers farm.

There is no adolescence in Pashtunistan. "They get a Kalashnikov and a goat and that's it." -ex-CIA bureau chief in Afg/Pak.

$12 billion to Pakistan.

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Great Drama.

Story arc.

$700 billion Thursday, or else nothing on Monday.

Baby-faced former Fed-boy.

2 days after Lehman fails lending, credit stops. Market failure.

Heroes? Only looking backward.


(Lifted from Charlie Rose)