The War on Poppies: US Efforts to Eradicate Afghanistan's Crop Are Empowering the Taliban by Sowing Seeds of Resentment

THE WAR ON POPPIES: U.S. EFFORTS TO ERADICATE AFGHANISTAN'S CROP ARE
EMPOWERING THE TALIBAN BY SOWING SEEDS OF RESENTMENT - PETER BERGEN AND SAMEER
LALWANI (LOS ANGELES TIMES, SEPTEMBER 2): The priority of the United States and
NATO should be first to thwart the Taliban insurgency while bettering the lives
of typical Afghans through significant economic and reconstruction efforts to
win hearts and minds. Doing nothing on the poppy front would do more to achieve
this goal than the counterproductive eradication path the U.S. currently
pursues.
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