Controlling Opium Production: The Decisive Point In Stabilizing Afghanistan

Goodison’s experience with what is happening in Afghanistan was acquired while he served there as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He became knowledgeable about the growing of opium and its becoming a very sought-after commodity, distributed all over the globe. Carl chose to call this drug a “weapon of mass destruction,” and indeed the dimensions of its growth and production in this wretched country arouse amazement; the reader will find much about it in this booklet.

A large proportion of this work deals with the writer’s recommendation as to how to cope with this “weapon” and to beat it. He is aware of the great economic weight that this drug has in Afghanistan, of the dimensions of the involvement of every governmental and security (police and military) institution in what is happening; nonetheless, he suggests ways as to how the bomb can be defused.

This is a comprehensive work, rich in illuminating data, and teaches a great deal about the drug and the scope of its distribution around the world. This work also affords a rare look into the depths of what is happening in Afghanistan, and this time by someone who was there for a long time and saw things at very close hand.