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justify the occupation of the "war against terrorism". But it makes more sense than the other theater of failure "war against drugs"

Parween, producer of opium in the Badakhshan province, which has supported her husband aging. Haji Barat, the merchant of opium in the provincial capital Fayzabad, who built a health center with 50 beds income. The images that you do not expect to go to war in Afghanistan, a country that is now killing when new Korans, burning and other place.

Nations Opium, a new book about Afghanistan by Fariba Nawa's, an Afghan who was born in Herat, but grew up in Northern California after his family fled the Soviet proposal a coup d ' eye scarce and contradictory in drug trafficking, which is the blood of the economic life of Afghanistan. This is the real story that the media and politicians should address.

The author takes the reader on a seven-year journey through many provinces, in search of the story of Daria, the girlfriend of 12 years of opium, which was sold by his father to pay a debt. Nawa As soon reach its goal of more transformed into a young woman he meets on the first pages, begins to understand the complexities of the drug trade.

She discovers, for example, that not all companies involved in this crime are simply victims or villains. Among farmers and traders are small towns heroes whose stories are rarely heard because they correspond to the image we want to hear.

Nawa also discovered that the same applies in the country of his birth. She writes:

"The Western media is spreading a romantic image of Afghanistan can not be conquered or tamed. Indisciplinés indigenous inhabitants are unwelcoming to modern society. Others think it is the burden the white man to save him from ignorance and tribalism. "

bring peace and prosperity to war-torn Afghanistan was a mission and fundamental foreign policy of Barack Obama. Today, with new images and new Korans burned the innocent victims of the massacre committed by an American soldier, the question of the final phase of the conflict has been pushed to the front pages once more. "When the Quran Incite riots fire and no mass murder" was the title of an article in the New York Times, mulling over the eternal mystery of the rebel natives.
daily news on television, we hear the deep voices of experts on the "war against terrorism" that speaks in Washington. Sometimes Peter Bergen is the New America Foundation, who met Osama bin Laden, on other occasions, it's Lisa Curtis at the Heritage Foundation, who worked at the CIA