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Fixing Afghanistan; Heroin trade a major obstacle.(OPED)
Washington Times, The, April, 2008
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Byline: Fred Gedrich, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Afghanistan's thriving heroin drug trade is a significant barrier to the country fully moving into modernity after centuries of chronic instability, poverty, and barbaric rule. The U.S.-led counter-narcotics program, which emphasizes poppy crop destruction, hasn't been able to thwart it. Absent a suitable anti-drug alternative the nation risks becoming a failed state again, crippling the war against radical Islamic extremism.
According to the State Department's annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report for 2007 ...
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