forget about the rising percentage of latinos in this country for a moment and consider this number somewhere between 6570 percent of all americans live in metropolitan regions of 500000 or more demography democrats and a metropolitan vision religious institutions have always wanted to exercise as much control over the individual as possible but especially in the critical areas of marriage birth and death samesex marriage and physicianassisted dying the connection the us government has failed to stop the drug trade at home washington also has not created a competent effective and honest central government in afghanistan how effective will kabul be in limiting opium production when american troops go home end the international drug war to control the afghan narcostate