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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan Will Be Another Vietnam]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Canada Free Press: Canada Free Press: If you want to know what life was like in the seventh century, Afghanistan is the place to go. It is largely devoid of anything passing for modernity, by which we mean medical facilities, schools, roads, and such. Never mind the telephones and other detritus of modern life, the conversations have not changed in centuries. The only reliable element of Afghanistan&#8217;s economy is poppy cultivation for the opium trade which the CIA estimates generates &#8220;roughly $4 billion in illicit economic activity.&#8221; This is another way of saying that none of this money reaches what passes for a central government except in the form of bribes. It is a major source of funding for the Taliban.]]></description>
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