This is one of the truly sad consequences of the events of the last few years. While we patiently await for democracy to emerge in Afghanistan and Iraq, drug traffickers are taking full advantage of the chaos to peddle heroin:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/un_drug_trafficking_iraq
Obviously, this is not even close to missing the boat on Iran and North Korea nuclear problems, but as this heroin makes it way to our streets, it hits much closer to home.