Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?

Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?

By THOMAS SCHWEICH

Published: July 27, 2008

A nearly equal challenge in 2006 was the lack of resolve in the international community. Although Britain’s foreign office strongly backed antinarcotics efforts (with the exception of aerial eradication), the British military were even more hostile to the anti-drug mission than the U.S. military. British forces — centred in Helmand — actually issued leaflets and bought radio advertisements telling the local criminals that the British military was not part of the anti-poppy effort. I had to fly to Brussels and show one of these leaflets to the supreme allied commander in Europe, who oversees Afghan operations for NATO, to have this counterproductive information campaign stopped. It was a small victory; the truth was that many of our allies in the International Security Assistance Force were lukewarm on anti-drug operations, and most were openly hostile to aerial eradication.

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