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Bad couple of days for Afghanistan - she can't seem to get a break.
Article on Christian Science Monitor here, excerpts below:
In the sharpest warnings they have ever issued on the topic, Pentagon officials told Congress the growing opium trade is threatening the costly US war effort to build a stable Afghanistan.
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“The Afghan drug problem is growing and threatens to undermine the overall US mission to build a stable Afghanistan,” he told them. “Absent effective counternarcotics programs,” he added, “everything we have invested – in both lives and treasure – will be at risk.”
Article on Christian Science Monitor here, excerpts below:
In the sharpest warnings they have ever issued on the topic, Pentagon officials told Congress the growing opium trade is threatening the costly US war effort to build a stable Afghanistan.
...
“The Afghan drug problem is growing and threatens to undermine the overall US mission to build a stable Afghanistan,” he told them. “Absent effective counternarcotics programs,” he added, “everything we have invested – in both lives and treasure – will be at risk.”
