Killing off Afghanistan's drug lords sounds like a nifty idea -- as good as any in the 72 years since Congress outlawed marijuana in the United States.

As presented in the New York Times on Monday, the Pentagon plans to hunt down and kill or capture 50 Afghan drug kingpins supporting the Taliban.
 
It's a very good time, in other words, for the drug lords to switch sides.

Bricker has identified one of the men, Gerardo "Jerry" Arrechea as a "high-ranking member of the Comandos F4,"  a Miami based anti-Castro exile group that has vowed to carry out armed attacks on Cuba as well as Venezuela. 

Meanwhile, the rest of the connections Bricker turned up on Arrechea and his sidekick Jerry Wilson (AKA Orlando, AKA Andrew Wilson), last seen dragging a Mexican police trainee through his own vomit, are yet another sign that U.S. private security contractors are out of control. 

(Take a peek at my recent review of Tim Shorrock's Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing, in The Washington Post, then read the rest of Bricker's comprehensive take.)