today

If Afghanistan grows so many drugs, why can't they be flown directly to the UK rather than through Pakistan and Turkey ?

Well there are at least two reasons, lack of availability of decent inhouse processing in Afghanistan presumably being one of them, but the main one being lack of a good direct plane route from Afghanistan. However the NATO forces will presumably be in a position to remedy that UTAP. An experience of US R&R leave in Sydney suggests that bad effects may be retained afterwards ,again UTAP, if the war in Afghanistan does end. So right now the answer seems to be to close the Pak border by whatever means needed like nukes and win the war, using many more troops not shirkers and would be TV stars. Blair did say he'd supply anything necessary to win, HOW ABOUT NUKES ? Sorry nobody likes that, but we have an unwholesome world.

By the way it looks like the French could get the big Saudi contract, really the Saudis should clean up their act as I said before.