Pakistan: With ratios like this, the trends are easy to determine

The other side of the mismatch (the first being the costs/benefits ratio of systems disruption), is the funding for 'law and order' vs. the pull of black globalization.

Here's the US funding to help Pakistan stop the flows of a $2.5 billion opium industry in Afghanistan:

X. The United States is to release $2.7 million to Pakistan to combat narcotics smuggling from Afghanistan, said an official... Washington was also scheduled to further extend its cooperation with Islamabad by releasing an additional $2.5 million in commodity support as well as $200,000 to upgrade border check posts along the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) border with Afghanistan.. (this is rich:) US cooperation, therefore, is seen as a major breakthrough in combating the illegal trade in opium-manufactured narcotics, the official said.

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[billmon]

Hey, a million here and a million there, and pretty soon you're talking real chump change.