AFGHANISTAN: Confronting terrorists and the drug trade*

The Taliban now controls Afghanistan’s growing drug trade and is using the proceeds to fund its deadly counter-insurgency campaign, writes Sharif Shuja.Fighting terrorists and securing the stability of Afghanistan are in both America’s and the Afghan Government’s national interests. There should be no doubt about it. But what are the best means to achieve these objectives? Military means are essential, but they must be linked with a broad strategy of economic reconstruction, social development a…

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