SENLIS is the NGO that suggests the poppy crop could be purchased and converted to pharmaceutical uses like morphine. WE could also help them promote other crops like pomegranates to make it a viable export product . Actually there is a variety of produce to promote as an alternative.

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General McCaffrey sounds like a later day George Marshall. We would've lost Europe after WWII without an economic development plan .
I think it would be a comparatively small investment if it would reduce the amt. of military resources we need in Afghanistan.