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At the Global Affairs group blog, Barnett Rubin gives us the second in a series of three posts on the effort to confront narcotics production and trafficking coming out of Afghanistan. It is an issue intimately tied up, potentially, with counter-terrorism efforts, but is often neglected by analysts. Rubin is among our foremost Afghanistan experts.
posted by Juan Cole @ 8/27/2007 12:04:00 AM
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2 Comments:
Dear Professor Cole,
Barnett Rubin concludes that eradication is not the strategy that most effectively stops drug money from funding corruption and insurgency. It quite simply raises prices for drugs thus benefitting traders and insurgents.
Though it is hard for me to see how the relatively small US/NATO force could possibly enforce a nationwide confiscation of these monies, I am looking forward to his next post. As an after thought: Would the confiscation of drug money not also act as a powerful price stimulant similar to taxation?
Thanks for posting the full session. Very interesting in so many ways.
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