July 8th, 2010

Jon Caulkins, Jonathan Kulick, and I have an op-ed in Friday’s Financial Times. It’s behind a registration wall (though not a paywall), but here’s the nut graf:

There simply are not many feasible drug-control activities in Afghanistan that do more good than harm. This is a case where less really is more: since the natural tendency of counterdrug efforts is to help our enemies, we should pursue those efforts as little as possible. As a first step in breaking the Taliban’s momentum, we might stop filling its coffers.

And here’s the full report.

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One Response to “Drug enforcement and the Afghan War”

  1. barbara cordero says:

    It was an interesting presentation…
    … one more example of the heavy hand which often has
    unintended consequences.