“The New York Times has a story about how opium production is soaring in Taliban strongholds of Afghanistan. ... Doesn't it seem particularly loathsome that what could be the world's most fundamentalist Muslims organization is engaged (as it has been all along) in producing and selling narcotics?”
Ed Cognoski responds:The Taliban distinguish between cultivation and use. Opiate production and export that is used to finance jihad and weaken the West is sometimes seen as justified by the Taliban. At the same time, opiate use by Muslims can be condemned and even harshly punished by the Taliban. There's a lot of hair-splitting and hypocrisy in this argument, but war is like that.
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