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Editor, Daily News:

What war on drugs? While the United States gifted Mexico $500 million
and Central America an additional $50 million to help eradicate drug
production (Daily News, April 30), our Marines in Afghanistan were
told to "ignore" the vast poppy fields they walk through.

The United Nations estimates the Taliban militants earn up to $100
million from the drug trade. Afghanistan supplies 9.3 percent of the
world's opium used to make heroin.

This just adds to the insanity of this war where U.S. tax dollars pay
tribute to primitive tribal warlords, who own the product of the
poppy, to ensure they don't kill our soldiers.

Jeanette Clark

Naples