boston.com - 2/20/2009
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Ending a ban on poppy production in Afghanistan is crucial to stabilizing that fragile country.
whitehouse.gov - 2/18/2009
ipsnews.net - 2/20/2009
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ipsnews.net —
Obama Nixed Full Surge After Quizzing Brass By
Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (IPS) - President Barack...
Obama decided to approve only 17,000 of the 30,000 troops requested by Gen. David McKiernan, the top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in ...
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US-AFGHANISTAN: Obama Nixed Full Surge After Quizzing ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 2/20/2009
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As last Friday’s Progress Report noted, and today’s
underlines, President Obama has inherited a crisis in Afghanistan....
The problems identified in the Center for American Progress’s December 2007 report still exist, and have gotten ...
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Knowing Where We Stand On Afghanistan
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Boston Globe - End Heroin Prohibition
Classical Values —
Boston Globe - End Heroin Prohibition Yes. You read that right. The Boston Globe says end heroin prohibition. THE OBAMA administration is committing 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Yet as the United States works to stabilize that country, the most important decisions don't just involve troop and funding levels. Also vital is ending the prohibition on growing opium poppies - for the policy is a key factor in Afghanistan's economic and security crisis. Of course the paper is only suggesting ending opium and heroin prohibition in Afghanistan. But still. It is a start. ...
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Boston Globe endorses legalized opium . . . in Afghanistan.
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... ). Recently, the Boston Globe had a good editorial summarizing the issue, and holding out a small ray of hope that the Obama Administration might change things: The Obama administration is committing 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Yet as the United States works to stabilize that country, the most important decisions don't just involve troop and funding levels. Also vital is ending the prohibition on growing opium poppies - for the policy is a key factor in Afghanistan's economic and security crisis. Since the US invasion in 2001, the American and Afghan governments ...
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