Afghanistan: The New Opium War
In an article on Open Democracy, Paul Rogers reports on a dangerous fusion of opium and insurgency in Afghanistan. He states that expansion of the opium economy in Afghanistan is contributing to a deteriorating security situation in the country.Rogers contends that "neither the aid nor the security offered was on the scale required":
"In 2002, United Nations specialists warned that Afghanistan needed massive aid and a substantial peacekeeping force if the country was to break out of the cycle of insecurity that it had experienced for more than two decades. If successful, that could also have meant a sharp decline in opium production. Neither the aid nor the security assistance was offered on the scale required. Four years later, the situation is deteriorating and the troops now deployed to Helmand province are likely to be at the epicentre of an increasingly perilous environment."
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