Quick quiz: Which nation that once harbored Osama bin Laden and was governed by the draconian Taliban is again the world's leading exporter of opium? It's Afghanistan, where the drug trade has flourished in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion in 2001. The war on terror has illuminated the utter failure of the war on drugs.

That's no surprise to those of us who understand what this drug war is all about, and what it is not. Under President Bush, like his predecessor Bill Clinton, this nation's ...

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