Articles tagged with: Taliban
A Bad Afghanistan Drug Policy
Hold on to you hats, folks; the U.S. government is making another shift in its Afghanistan policy. This time the policy shift involves Afghanistan’s lucrative drug trade. Although a relatively small country, Afghanistan accounts for 93% of the world’s heroin-producing crop, much of which is centered in the southern provinces where the Taliban is strongest. Since the illegal opium trade …
Pakistan: A Growing Regional Problem
As expected, the ill-conceived capitulation of the Pakistani government to Taliban militants into the northwestern Swat Region has failed to bring about peace and security to the Pakistani people. The hope of the Zardari government was that the agreement with the Taliban to allow strict Islamic law in Swat and the surrounding areas would end their violent campaign to spread Islamic fundamentalism …
Afghanistan: the Next American Quagmire
Over the last several months, both the Obama and the McCain campaigns have taken the position that more NATO (i.e. American) troops are needed to fight the increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Although each Presidential candidate presented a completely different view on how the situation in Afghanistan became so hopelessly entangled, both candidates agreed that more military intervention is urgently needed. It is …
