Canada treads dangerous line over poppy eradication in southern Afghanistan
www.canada.com, April 23 ’06

But uprooting the plant from which opium and heroin is derived is not the kind of image the military wants to cultivate here as it tries to build trust among distant and suspicious rural Afghans.

These contradictions come from trying to control other people.

By the way, there are many uses for opium poppy besides drug abuse.

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