former white house drug policy spokesman robert wiener says the drug problem can only be solved by eradicating the poppy crops altogether. the disease is not a policy this is an accident of nature and it will come right back in a year or two to be the huge amount of drugs that is routinely making afghanistan the number one supplier in the world one of the very good things that has happened is the new united nations drugs are yuri fedotov is from russia he's a very strong eradication advocate and the previous united nations drugs are mr cost we confronted him on this was against eradication thinking that it would be difficult for the economy of afghanistan and you have to make nice with the people what mr casa didn't understand what mr fedotov in the united nations now doesn't understand is that the only way that you can cut off money from the taliban and money from al qaida because this is drugs are seventy percent of their funding is to eradicate the drugs out of the source of their money and they will go to that proportion disappear and so will the violence against all the countries on earth

perspective on this now enjoy life from washington by former white house drug policy spokesman robert wiener good to have you with this poppy virus seems from a certain perspective like it may be a good thing but in some ways it's also raise the stakes in the drug trade do you think this virus was a natural occurrence or is this the sort of thing that could have been done deliberately. i know it's a natural occurrence and we've known about it for some time in mad thank you very much for having me but a disease is not a policy this is an accident of nature and it will come right back in a year or two to be the huge amount of drugs that is routinely making afghanistan the number one supplier in the world and that is a tragedy one of the very good things that has happened is the new united nations drugs are yuri fedotov is from russia he's a very strong eradication advocate and the previous united nations drug czar mr cost we confronted him on this was against eradication thinking that it would be difficult for the economy of afghanistan and you have to make nice with the people what mr casa di