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| Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State |
| 2020-12-26 |
Somehow we managed to miss this very long article from 2013. Key paragraphs: [RollingStone] After 13 years of war, we haven’t defeated the Taliban, but we have managed to create a nation ruled by drug lords Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Province in southern Afghanistan is named for the wide river that runs through its historic provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, a low-slung city of shrubby roundabouts and glass-fronted market blocks. When I visited in April, there was an expectant atmosphere, like that of a whaling town waiting for the big ships to come in. In the bazaars, the shops were filled with dry goods, farming machinery and cycle of violences. The teahouses, where a man could spend the night on the carpet for the price of his dinner, were packed with migrant laborers, or nishtgar, drawn from across the southern provinces, some coming from as far afield as Iran |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Lord and master. Say, can I interest you in an investment proposal? |
| Posted by: Little Big Guy 2020-12-26 09:36 |
| #2 Afghan President Hamid Karzai (AKA The Caped Crusader) almost certainly was an economic participant -if not a Bidenesque consumer- of the drug lords |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-12-26 09:20 |
| #1 "The fight against drugs is actually the fight for Afghanistan," said Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he took office in 2002. "This is a source of income for the warlords and regional factions to pay their soldiers," warned former Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalili in a May 2005 interview with Reuters. "The terrorists are funding their operations through illicit drug trade, so they are all interlinked." The Government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both expressed fears that Afghanistan is at risk of becoming a narco-state. So, what else is new? |
| Posted by: b 2020-12-26 07:03 |