Over the past 18 months there has been a murmuring of the press that the war in Afghanistan is not going well and Iraq is taking the focus off Afghanistan. If the rapidly increasing exported poppy crop is anything to go by, then the drug war in Afghanistan is certainly on the back foot.
Unfortunately that side of the coin doesn’t really get a lot of main stream press when there are more newsworthy items about terrorism to be told of.
The inherent link between drugs and terrorism is mentioned only in passing most often.