US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who once upheld Afghanistan as a success story in the war on terror, acknowledged that progress toward building a stable democratic society in that country was not all encouraging. “Not all the news about Afghanistan is encouraging,” Rumsfeld wrote in an essay in The Washington Post. “There is, for example, the legitimate worry that increased poppy production could be a destabilizing factor. And rising violence in southern Afghanistan is real.” Full Story
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