FFF President Jacob Hornberger helped set the gold standard for uncompromising honesty about the folly of U.S. intervention.

It all began with Bush

I wrote numerous articles for FFF on the Afghan war. My first article, "Drug Laws: Terrorists Best Friends," in February 2002, attacked the Bush administration for perpetuating the war on drugs while promising to rid the world of terror. That article noted:

Afghanistan produces about 70 percent of the world's opium. Revenue from opium production helped finance both the Taliban government (until production was banned) and the al-Qaeda terrorist network. Because narcotics are illegal, they tend to attract violent, ruthless people and organizations to carry out their production and marketing. The only reason that opium is more profitable for terrorists than beer is that governments criminalize the possession and distribution of opium while tolerating the possession and distribution of beer.