{"id":24609,"date":"2023-07-01T20:39:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T00:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=24609"},"modified":"2023-07-01T20:39:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T00:39:26","slug":"heres-a-seeming-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/heres-a-seeming-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s  a Seeming Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve spent untold billions of dollars to fight the war on drugs and we&#8217;ve not only lost but we&#8217;ve given up and let it fill our streets with homeless and killed millions of children.\u00a0 The Taliban who have basically nothing shut down the drug trade in one year of running Afghanistan.\u00a0 So which is the better government?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Afghanistan is among the poorest countries on Earth and we are among the richest.  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