i mean, i have seen documents ries, yada, yada, and they get money fronted to them and they have to return the crop to the warlord or their daughter gets married to some creep somewhere, and also when we began all this after the 9/11 and went to afghanistan, you know, hoorah, hoorah, and the taliban and al qaeda, how connected are they? are they connected? is it, like just a mishmash? and when we see these people struggling and burn the one thing they grow, why wouldn't they think we're either just stupid or ail gwens from another planet? guest: well, there have been some proposals put forward to purchase opium poppy in some restricted arrangement whereby western pharmaceutical companies start to use this for open quats-based drugs in hospitals and so on, but i think those ideas haven't gained much traction for several reasons. one, the drug debate is still very much a hot one in the u.s. and in the west, and would this be equivalent to making concessions in a war that worry's still fighting, and still sort of questioning our own strategies and view of that. what kind of compromises can we