Afghanistan Revisited

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By Laura Knoy on Thursday, June 19, 2008.
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It’s been more than six years since the US drove the Taliban from power. But even as Afghans reconstruct their lives, battles with insurgents rage on and there’s concern over growing regional instability. We’ll get the latest from Afghanistan and how US policy there may be changing.

Guests

  • Wayne Lesperance, Associate Professor of Political Science at New England College
  • Bill Martel, Associate Professor of International Security Studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University

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afghan farm economy

Our role has to be to recruit economic development by defending non-poppy markets for altercate farm products. The Missouri reserves have volunteered and are there doing this.

We have had six USDA people in the whole country, It is the size of Texas. The farmers need water and safe ways to get non-drug farm products to market. We must pay more for non-drug products than we do for drugs, and we must assure that be safer and more profitable to grow non-drugs than drugs.

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