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.
But recently there has been a very cool series in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald going into more detail about the issue of the poppy crop in Afghanistan.
In fact, it has spawned a very cool website about the issue with some great photos and fantastic writing.
This is something worth devoting 20 minuted to reading.