How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower
Monday, February 22, 2016 8:43
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By Alfred W. McCoy / TomDispatch
In the American failure in Afghanistan lies the greatest policy paradox of the century: Washington’s massive military juggernaut has been stopped dead in its steel tracks by a pink flower, the opium poppy.
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