Now that the Frankenstein monster, Osama Ben Laden, has been eliminated, it is time that Russia be assigned administration of Afghanistan. This reversal would truly conclude this episode of Taliban/Al-Qaida absurdity and re-institutes an authentic movement toward the globalized project of liberalized hegemony. The Russian interest is realized by the presence of Afghan drug cartels, which embody a threat to the Russia people, its allies, and by extension, Europe and North America. Russian presence is justified in the guise of a Middle Eastern "War on Drugs." This new position must be taken, in cooperation with Western forces, to reset the region to a pre-Reagan condition and allow a rational replay of the past two absurd decades.