Good morning D-League. Back to hot and humid in the east. My son heads back to Lexington today. It's a bittersweet day for my wife and me. We've loved having him here, and he has worked hard, taken a couple trips to LA and Asheville and found a new girlfriend who goes to WVU. So a good summer for him. We'll miss him.
You all talking about the opium trade through Afghanistan have it right.
On the Afghan-Pakistan border west of the city of Quetta near a huge refugee camp, the Pakistani government has an area where they isolate opium and heroin addicts in a graveyard -- I guess they feel like that's an efficient solution and cuts down on transportation costs.
My photographer and I spent a night in that hell hole documenting the local costs of the opium trade that reached all the way into Europe and America. We were trying to make the point all the way back to 2001 that meddling in the area was going to be complicated.
An ugly scene for sure.