• Thursday, January 15th, 2009
SACEUR’s Quote of Note; The current counter-narcotics effort (in Afghanistan) is ineffective.
The money from the narcotics trade is feeding the insurgency.
It buys weapons and pays fighters – the weapons and fighters that kill soldiers and Afghan citizens alike.
It is a cancer, fuelling the insurgency, contributing to corruption, impeding legitimate commerce, and undermining governance.
Indeed NATO must step up to this task. “
Category: Afghanistan, Operations
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