Afghanistan: Errors of Judgment Edition

My first Afghanistan roundup for Global Voices Online, focusing on (what else?) the problems of opium eradication, is up. A tease:

Domestic political concerns, and not the interests of Afghanistan itself, are dictating the West’s counternarcotics policy; similarly, the manpower and money shortfalls caused by the Iraq War are dictating the American commitment, and other domestic concerns are similarly constricting European choices.

The one question no one in the West seems to be asking themselves when it comes to Afghanistan is: what is best for the Afghans?

Go on, give it a read.

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Joshua Foust – author of 1771 posts on Registan.net.

Joshua Foust is a Fellow at the American Security Project and the author of Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net. His research focuses primarily on Central and South Asia. Joshua is a correspondent for The Atlantic and a columnist for PBS Need to Know. Joshua appears regularly on the BBC World News, Aljazeera, and international public radio. Joshua is also a regular contributor to Foreign Policy’s AfPak Channel, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, and the Christian Science Monitor. Follow him on twitter: @joshuafoust