SIGAR Report: Future Counternarcotics Efforts

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has published a report entitled Future U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Afghanistan dated January 15, 2014. The report is a statement by the head of SIGAR, John Sopko, who testified before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. In his opening comments he says that ". . . the situation in Afghanistan is dire with little prospect for improvement in 2014 or beyond. Afghan farmers are growing more opium poppies today than at any time in their modern history". Mr. Sopko raises the possibility that instead of Afghanistan evolving into a successful democratic state or an insurgent state; that it may instead evolve into a failed narco-criminal state. The report can be accessed from the SIGAR website to read online or download at the link below:
http://www.sigar.mil/pdf/audits/SIGAR-14-21-TY.pdf