Here's a Stumper

"KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 — Afghanistan’s opium harvest this year has reached the highest levels ever recorded, showing an increase of almost 50 percent from last year, the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, said Saturday in Kabul."
This speaks volumes for the superiority of the free market approach to economics so raptly advocated by western economists. One has to ask though; if the United States can restore the principal industry in Afghanistan to such a robust state, why can it not do the same for the principal industry in Iraq? The demand for oil is certainly as great as the demand for heroin;
"We are addicted to oil."(G. W. Bush, 2006)

So what's the problem? The markets are there, the demand is there, but our occupying forces in Iraq seem unable to match the economic renaissance brought about by our occupying forces in Afghanistan. Why doesn't the president send the Afghan economic restoration team to Iraq, to bring their oil industry up to snuff?