The United Nations released a report in August stating that this year's poppy crop in Afghanistan has risen 64 percent. In light of this the U.S. is, again, compartmentalizing its problem solving strategy into one basket. It just wants to nuke -- or sorry, I mean -- drench the yield with pesticides.
These pesticides may spread poisons, destroy legal food crops and eradicate people's livelihoods, but who cares, the opium is the bad guy. There is no strategy and, again,...
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