Agence France PresseMay 21, 2009. NATO has failed to stem the vast opium trade in Afghanistan that helps finance Taliban insurgents despite an eight-year effort.
Pratap Chatterjee, Tomdispatch.com. March 23, 2009. Parts of Afghanistan that have neither violent Taliban resistance nor much opium trade are virtually ignored by the U.S.
Ethan A. Nadelmann, AlterNet. August 31, 2007. Given that farmers are going to produce opium -- somehow, somewhere -- so long as the global demand for heroin persists, maybe the world is better off, all things considered, with 90 percent of it coming from Afghanistan.
