Skip to main content
SAGE Knowledge
SAGE Knowledge
CQ Press

Previous Chapter Chapter 16: Afghanistan Dilemma

  • Citations
  • Add to My List
  • Text Size

Citations

Billitteri, T. & Kingsbury, A. (2012). Afghanistan dilemma. In Issues for debate in American foreign policy: Selections from CQ researcher (pp. 427-454). Washington, DC: CQ Press doi: 10.4135/9781483349268.n16

Billitteri, Thomas J. and Alex Kingsbury. "Afghanistan Dilemma." In Issues for Debate in American Foreign Policy: Selections from CQ Researcher, 2nd ed., 427-454. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2012. doi: 10.4135/9781483349268.n16.

Billitteri, T & Kingsbury, A 2012, 'Afghanistan dilemma', in Issues for debate in american foreign policy: selections from cq researcher, 2nd edn, CQ Press, Washington, DC, pp. 427-454, viewed 9 December 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781483349268.n16.

Billitteri, Thomas J. and Alex Kingsbury. "Afghanistan Dilemma." Issues for Debate in American Foreign Policy: Selections from CQ Researcher. .2nd ed Washington: CQ Press, 2012. 427-454. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 9 Dec. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781483349268.n16.

Copy to Clipboard

Have you created a personal profile? Login or create a profile so that you can create alerts and save clips, playlists, and searches.

Font Size

A Small A Normal A Large
Afghanistan Dilemma
Afghanistan dilemma
Thomas J.Billitteri
AlexKingsbury

An Afghan security officer guards two tons of burning heroin, opium and hashish near Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, on March 18, 2009. Nearly eight years after U.S.-led forces first entered Afghanistan, many challenges still confront the U.S., Afghan and coalition forces seeking to stabilize the country: fanatical Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, rampant police corruption, shortages of Afghan troops and a multibillion-dollar opium economy that supports the insurgents.

On the outskirts of Now Zad, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan's violent Helmand Province, the past, present and future of the war in Afghanistan came together this summer.

The past: After the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Now Zad and its surrounding poppy fields and stout compounds were largely tranquil, thanks in part to ...

Looks like you do not have access to this content.

Login

Don’t know how to login?

Click here for free trial login.

Back to Top

Copy and paste the following HTML into your website