Afghanistan and Azerbaijan to work on strategy to address environment challenges
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/09/29/afghanistan-and-azerbaijan-to-work-on-strategy-to-address-environment-challenges/
How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost
Opium now accounts for around a third of Afghanistan's GDP, he says. It is by far the country's biggest cash crop and provides almost 600,000 full-time jobs.
This, despite the fact that the US military has spent $1.5m a day on counter narcotics since the invasion in October 2001, or almost $9bn.
And remember, that is on top of the more than $1 trillion spent fighting the war itself.
"To put it bluntly", he says, "these numbers spell failure."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47861444
are 4000 troops really coming back to the US INC?