Summary
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is right to link the drug trade and the resurgent Taliban, as reported in Robert Burns' Associated Press article "Rumsfeld links drugs, Taliban" (World, Tuesday). However, the defense secretary is mistaken in thinking the ills of the drug trade can be curbed with a press conference and a photo-op.
There are two fronts in the conflict in Afghanistan, one against armed combatants and the other against opium. The coalition is prosecuting the prior with the utmost vigor while attempting to combat the latter on the cheap. It does not matter how many terrorists or Islamist soldiers are killed in the coming years because as long as Afghanistan produces 90 percent of the world's heroin, it will never be a free and secure nation.See the full content of this document
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Drugs and Afghanistan
There is no greater insult to the coalition effort to fight opium...
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