Resurgent Afghanistan Drug Trade Threatening US Goals, Pentagon Warns -- Christian Science Monitor
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 drug problem in Afghanistan is growing, and it threatens to undermine the US war effort of building a stable country there, top Pentagon officials say in some of the sharpest warnings they have ever issued on the topic.
The lucrative opium trade has been surging in recent years, even as less of the crop is being seized, officials and recent reports say, and with the US military presence in the country winding down, prospects for keeping the illicit business in check are dwindling.
Just how to take on Afghanistan’s opium poppy trade, however, has long been a tricky proposition for the US military.
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My Comment: These warnings are too late. Everyone knows that U.S. forces are leaving and with it is their ability to influence official Afghan drug policy.
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