The grim axiom defining today's Afghanistan, 85 percent of whose citizens are farmers, is that its economy relies on two dueling revenue streams. One flows from Western aid, in the hopes that the country will renounce the Taliban. The other flows from opium trafficking supported by the Taliban, which use the proceeds to fund attacks on Western troops. Only recently has the Afghan government seemed to take stock of the obvious: For the outside world's largesse to continue, the national economy's addiction to opium must end. The poppy fields must be destroyed. But just as this devoutly Muslim nation did not become the world's leading opium supplier overnight, uprooting Afghanistan's poppy mind-set promises to be a complicated endeavor. Read the full article by Robert Draper in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic, available on newsstands now. Afghanistan's Opium Wars - Photo Gallery - National Geographic Magazine http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/02/opium-wars/guttenfelder-photography It is indeed a Big business. no way to stop them - all of this people are fed by this business. and they need every $ of this business
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The grim axiom defining today's Afghanistan, 85 percent of
whose citizens are farmers, is that its economy relies on two dueling
revenue streams. One flows from Western aid, in the hopes that the
country will renounce the Taliban. The other flows from opium
trafficking supported by the Taliban, which use the proceeds to fund
attacks on Western troops. Only recently has the Afghan government
seemed to take stock of the obvious: For the outside world's largesse to
continue, the national economy's addiction to opium must end. The poppy
fields must be destroyed. But just as this devoutly Muslim nation did
not become the world's leading opium supplier overnight, uprooting
Afghanistan's poppy mind-set promises to be a complicated endeavor.
Read the full article by Robert Draper in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic, available on newsstands now.
Afghanistan's Opium Wars - Photo Gallery - National Geographic Magazine
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/02/opium-wars/guttenfelder-photography
It is indeed a Big business. no way to stop them - all of this people are fed by this business. and they need every $ of this business
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