http://www.senliscouncil.net/
"Forced Poppy Eradication Would End Hope for Reconstruction and Security in Afghanistan"
The website of the Senlis Council has a wealth of information on changes in policy regarding opium in Afghanistan.
This writer can not see how the US or anyone else has the right to dictate what people grow. Period.
But as long as policies are changing on this issue, to realize the damage done by these eradication policies, damage to humans, then we should apply this same rule to Laos where the CURRENT SECRET US DRUG WAR rages against the Akha people, who have not voice, guns, nuclear weapons, oil or reporters.
The US has no problem to smash and stomp a small people, if their cry is not heard in the forest.
The ngo people will remain silent to what they see.
The US killing of Akha women and children with starvation and disease will go on. Terrorist Nation.
Maybe some alliance will be made between the rights of the Afghanistan people and the Akha people.
As well we must mention that the US, which did not keep its word to the Hmong and Mien, but abandoned them to die after the war in Vietnam, is now cutting their life sustanance opium and killing them once more by intention. Makes one wonder why ANYONE would want to be a partner to the US?