Sunday, May 27, 2007
Losing Afghanistan [Andrew Stuttaford]
Via the Financial Times:
The US is proceeding with plans for a big crop-spraying programme to destroy opium poppies in Afghanistan, in spite of resistance from the government of President Hamid Karzai and objections from some senior US military officers who fear it will fuel the Taliban insurgency.
Read the whole thing, if you can bear to.
05/27 01:00 PM
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