Bee ... a friend of mine has a younger brother (captain) serving over in the Afghani, his 2nd tour there ... poppies are one problem he faces ... the Afghani government wants the Canadian troops to burn the poppy fields, but as he says ... "if we ruin their fields, the peasants will certainly take up arms against us".

LH ... I don't think the Russians will be back in the Afghani for a long, long time.

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