In praise of Capitalism?

Sometimes, even wild eyed, hate filled, pinkos like myself have to stand back and mutter, sotto voce, that capitalism is awesome. In the midst of dreadful conflict it does restore one's faith in inhumanity!

An article in Open Democracy makes this point very clear with the following claim-

In 2001, the last year of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, the production of heroine was seventy-four metric tonnes; in 2006, under the nominal control of the US-led "coalition of the willing", the production of heroin in Afghanistan reached 6,100 metric tonnes.

Faced with such productivity what can one say but 'Our Ford'!