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Is NATO to Blame for Russia's Afghan Heroin Problem?

Jorge Benitez | June 12, 2010
U.S. soldiers patrol Afghan poppy fields, Helmand province.

From Simon Shuster, Time: On the international stage, Russia's Afghan heroin issue has become the country's favorite crusade, and has allowed Russia to enter a global debate about Afghanistan that had previously left it on the sidelines.

Afghanistan Spins Out of Control, U.S. Fiddles

Frederick Kempe | February 05, 2008
Hamid Karzai

NATO is winning most battles in Afghanistan, but the international community is losing the war.That has consequences far beyond Afghanistan if the U.S., Europe and its friends don't change course fast.

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