The drug war and the terror war
During the recent war against Israel, Hezbollah used night vision equipment which had been supplied by Iran, as detailed in a new article by the Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs. Iran had obtained the equipment from the United Kingdom to “bolster Iranian efforts to combat heroin smuggling across the Afghan border as part of the UN Drug Control Program.” The U.K. was extremely foolish to expect the Iranian tyrants to keep their promises not to divert the equipment to military use.
August 24th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
In so, so many ways, prohibitions enrich and empower the very worst of criminals, and encourage corruption. A cursory study of the American Prohibition of alcohol will convince even the half-interested of that.
Too bad we haven’t learned that lesson as a society.