USA/Afghanistan. In documents, US officials said almost everything they did to end opium farming in Afghanistan backfired
USA/Afghanistan. In documents, US officials said almost everything they did to end opium farming in Afghanistan backfired
(…) Of all the failures in Afghanistan, the war on drugs has been perhaps the most feckless, according to a cache of confidential government interviews and other documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Since 2001, the United States has spent about $9 billion on a dizzying array of programs to deter Afghanistan from supplying the world with heroin. In dozens of interviews, however, key players in the anti-narcotics campaign acknowledged that none of the measures have worked and that, in many cases, they have made things worse. (Stars and Stripes, USA, 09.12.2019)
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