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Alfred McCoy

How a Failed Drug War Will Defeat Trump’s Afghanistan Adventure

The question of opium eradication has gotten surprisingly “little attention in the Trump administration’s new strategy for the Afghan war.” It seems that U.S. counter-narcotics officials have come to accept a new reality “with a sense of helplessness” — that the country now supplies 85% of the world’s heroin and there’s no end to this in sight.

November 14th, 2017

By Alfred McCoy

How a Failed Drug War Will Defeat Trump’s Afghanistan Adventure

After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying in Afghanistan to fight and — so they insist — win. “The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that no place is beyond the reach of American might,” 

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