Pomegranates: New Afghanistan Counter-Narcotics Strategy

I cannot believe it has taken 8 years for NATO/US to figure this out. Do we ever learn from history? The same problem is going on in Latin America where the FARC is financed by cocoa production. As always, there has been too much emphasis on interdiction and eradication rather than offering viable economic alternatives and rehabilitation. Perhaps if we had started this program sooner, the Taliban might not be as formidable as it is today.