Absolutely not. Afghanistan has only one crop to speak of - poppies, and yes, they are used to make heroin. However, they can also be used to make the painkillers we are more familiar with, and that are used in hospitals around the world every minute. A much better idea would have been to offer to buy the entire poppy crop from the newly formed Afghan government, and to do so for several years. This would have put much needed cash into the coffers of Kabul. This money could have been used to increase the rate of infrastructure growth which is necessary to take the country out of the Dark Ages. By legalising a product which is currently frowned upon, the black market, and the warlords it supports, would diminish. By buying supplies in Kabul (at no doubt favourable rates) the rest of the world would address it's crisis of supplies of painkilling drugs. The people who would suffer most by such an action would be the poverty stricken villagers, thus making them all the more likely to listen to some of the Taliban 'hearts and minds' speeches. Oh, and the people who sell on the streets would find supplies harder and harder to come by, because the Government would have bought it all.