a simple thinning of the herd a simple thinning of the herdTrue that.
I’ve also read (here and elsewhere) that the opium production in Afghanistan (#1 in anything for the first time ever) was down close to zero under the Taliban, until someone thought it a good idea to ‘liberate’ Afghanistan from the Taliban... Winning! as Charlie Sheen might put it... seriously, who gives a crap about that sh!thole and why meddle there, again? 200 years of attempts to bring civilization there have all failed. Now they’re back up to former levels in production and the scum are flooding the West (Europe, mostly) as ‘refugees’....