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Drug warriors are playing into the Talibans hands.
Jacob Sullum, September 13, 2006

After years of hard work by drug warriors in Afghanistan, the country no
longer produces 87 percent of the world's illicit opium. Now it produces
92 percent, according to the latest suspiciously precise estimate from
the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

On Tuesday, citing ties between opium trafficking and the Taliban
insurgency, UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa called upon
NATO forces in Afghanistan to get more involved in efforts to stamp out
the opium trade. This is exactly the right strategy to pursue if the aim
is to alienate the Afghan people, undermine their government, and
strengthen the insurgency.

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