Seeds of Terror
How heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
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So when corrupt officials get arrested and tried, they go through the Afghan court system. It’s quite clear that system is not working particularly well. And even when it does work, there are still problems. Before the presidential election, Karzai himself pardoned five convicted drug traffickers, one of whom was related to his campaign manager. In that kind of environment, it’s hard to see how an anti-corruption drive is going to take place.
To me this is the crux of the problem in Afghanistan. Insurgencies don’t exist in places where there is good governance. I don’t believe that NATO and the West are going to defeat the Taliban by shooting them all. The Taliban will only be defeated when they are replaced by something better. And most Afghans don’t see the government of Hamid Karzai as something better. Until there is effective and clean government in Afghanistan, it’s going to be very hard to see the end of the Taliban insurgency.
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