WAR RIDDLES: TEN QUESTIONS THE MEDIA ISN'T ANSWERING

Since September 11, the media have been lost in the fog of war. Lacking
official answers, certain questions hang in the air, fostering conspiracy
theories and eluding rational consensus. Here are 10 questions to which
journalists either cannot or will not deliver straight answers. As the
proverb goes, "Those who say, do not know. Those who know, do not say."

[Snip to drug policy related question]

Who's to blame for Al Qaeda drug profits?

Teenage drug users, of course. At least that's the message behind the
administration's new drug strategy. According to Bush's logic, because Al
Qaeda leaders sell opium to pay for their war chest, U.S. kids can help
fight terror by not buying illegal drugs. In the March Vanity Fair, Maureen
Orth draws a different conclusion. On location in Tajikistan, Orth reports
that the best way to control the opium boom is to get dirty intelligence
agencies out of the business and make drug control a condition of U.S.
assistance to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Reason's Jacob Sullum has taken this
a step further, arguing that if we want to impoverish Islamic terrorists, we
should stop fighting the drug war altogether, because it artificially
inflates profits in the black market.

[Snip - Following question not related to drug policy.]