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Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State
Somehow we managed to miss this very long article from 2013. Key paragraphs: [RollingStone] After 13 years of war, we haven’t defeated the Taliban, but we have managed to create a nation ruled by drug lords Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Province in southern Afghanistan is named for the wide river that runs through its historic provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, a low-slung city of shrubby roundabouts and glass-fronted market blocks. When I visited in April, there was an expectant atmosphere, like that of a whaling town waiting for the big ships to come in. In the bazaars, the shops were filled with dry goods, farming machinery and cycle of violences. The teahouses, where a man could spend the night on the carpet for the price of his dinner, were packed with migrant laborers, or nishtgar, drawn from across the southern provinces, some coming from as far afield as Iran Posted by: trailing wife 2020-12-26 |
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