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A senior
Drug Enforcement Agency veteran recounts fighting the Taliban and the CIA while trying to bring down Afghan drug kingpins. He refers to the Afghan government's drug eradication effort as a joke. He fears that with a U.S. pullout from Afghanistan the Taliban will gain greater strength. Read more in
"A Drug Warrior's Inside Look at the War on Afghanistan's Heroin Trade",
Mother Jones, Jan 12, 2015.