the final solution to the afghan problem is to toss it to the china. here's the gameplan: move 6 million chinese to afghanistan and allow the chinese government to support them initially because they will tend to agriculture. when you move 10 million of them: you create jobs because so many people can just create a local industry to support them. for one thing they need a big noodle factory! encourage them that they land they can squat on its theirs! now that is an added incentive. look what the chinese have done to tibet, bhutan and sikkim. they are there since the 60's and in a hundred years, the tibetan people will be gone. they will just be chinese! so if the taliban is the problem; lets give them the chinese solution! for all we know a switch may happen: they will all work for the chinese factories. already china job fairs are inviting a lot of foreigners to come and apply.

Having spent 22 years in UK Customs Anti-Smuggling operations and criminal investigation in the UK and time spent working in Africa on a customs reform project there appears to be no dedicated Anti-Smuggling mentoring available outside of Government circles and those that do exist appear in the main to barely touch the subject and sometimes are run by people who have never even worked in customs. There are consultancies out there that think they cover Anti-Smuggling but most of the consultants in these companies have been out of that area of work for 10-20 years. Even in the WCO open source material there is nothing that tells Officers about detailed selection and examination of cars, goods vehicles, ships boarding and rummage and aircraft search, nor are there any examples of baggage concealments that I can find. Standard vehicle examination appears to consist of a man with a mirror on a broom handle checking the underside of a car which is not an examination! Working with colleagues, we have very recent Anti-Smuggling experience and can demonstrate the risk analysis and selection behind interceptions of passengers, shipping containers, vehicles and freight to produce efficient detection and mobile brigade teams with a flexible approach to detection methods. If you wish to know more drop in a line. Thank you.

RT: "Russia and the US are set to join forces to tackle the Afghan drug problem."
Good idea, provided this joint effort isn't a clever American plan to suck the Russian federation into the American made Afghan quagmire.                                                      
"Mission creep" is the Pentagon's favorite ploy for entrapping other nations into combat action in Afghanistan: - initial staff - then trainers - then troops to defend the staff and trainers - then nearby combat missions, etc, etc.                                                      

Do you have more great airltces like this one?