Plan Afghanistan?

All indications are that the U.S. has decided to pursue aerial spraying of Afghanistan’s massive opium crop as a way of trying to choke off the Taliban’s financial resources.
Nick Grono and Joanna Nathan of the International Crisis Group throw cold water on both opium eradication and legalization as solutions to the drug problem in Afghanistan.
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Somalia Backgrounder

This report on Somalia from Ted Dagne from the Congressional Research Service provides a good background sketch on the situation before the Ethiopian invasion. It is quite skeptical of allegations that the Islamic Courts Union hosted al-Qaeda or terrorists in any significant number.

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