Stupidity from the US government

I just stumbled upon a blog with a dude complaining that a bill to spend $700 million in a futile attempt to reduce the opium trade in Afghanistan almost died. What a complete waste of time. If they really wanted to cripple the drug trade all the have to do is legalize drugs. If drugs were legal the price would go down significantly and terrorists wouldn't make money on the drug trade. Not only that we wouldn't have junkies committing crimes to fund their drug habits. But this simple solution will never be taken seriously by either Republicans or Democrats. Logic that even a school marm atheist mom like me can see is simply beyond the morons that run the most powerful country in the universe.