"The war on drugs in Afghanistan, to the extent there is a war on drugs, has been a failure," Republican Congressman Thomas Massie concluded after pressing witnesses from the Department of Defense on what kind of metrics they use to gauge success in their counternarcotic efforts in Afghanistan.
In fact, it appears that, under the watchful eye of the US, opium use has expanded to new parts of Afghanistan and growers now make use of modern, advanced agricultural technologies.
