MOSCOW. ( RIA Novosti political commentator...
morphine and heroin, and the transportation of ready opiates to consumer countries by reliable routes, is as fail-safe as a Swiss watch.Is there a way to combat Afghan drugs? Afghans cannot do this themselves - either economically, or by force. As for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), it has to have a special UN mandate to destroy opium fields, and heroin-producing labs.
Neither the United States, which leads the anti-terrorist coalition, nor the NATO leaders, who have headed ISAF, will ever request such a mandate from the UN Security Council. The U.S. is even less likely to do so. It stays in Afghanistan not under the UN aegis. Why should it make worse the already complicated relations with the local population? Besides, the Russian-European problems with Afghan drugs are too remote for Americans. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attributed growing production of drugs in Afghanistan to increasing demand for them in Europe and Russia. He
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