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He has. Its the same position the Taliban have on opium poppies.
Do you mean he's fighting the americans for control of it ?
:-)
No, he's running a country whose economy is completely dependent on exporting a commodity that creates widespread misery and death ... just like the Taliban.
Except when the Taliban were in government (back 6 years ago or so) they banned opium production and caused a worldwide heroin drought.
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=taliban+ban+opium
Afghan opium production didn't restart until after the Taliban were ejected from office.
Rudd doesn't appear to have banned coal mining as far as I can tell.
See, Rudd can learn from the Taliban. The ban drove up the price of opium several fold. Imagine what a ban on Aussie coal exports could do to the price of coal?