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Afghanistan with Tariq Ali

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Afghanistan Exports to the Rest of the World

The only success in afghanistan, if we want to talk in those terms, has been that afghanistan's exports to the rest of the world have shot up from about 24 % of the world market to 90%. And that is the poppy heroine in opium. So this is the benefit which the united states and its native allies, who, instead of stopping this trade, basically encouraged in. The comparison with china, of course, is very striking. Who are the chinese? Have built these cities. They've got quite an astonishing infrastructa now on on many levels. Until now, the government is safe. You know, it's not an unpopular government in ch

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