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Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier Joel Hafvenstein

Joel Hafvenstein


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Now that the Supreme Court . Opium Education and the Long War in Afghanistan « Brown Human . Gretchen Peters spent over a decade as a news reporter covering Pakistan and Afghanistan . Common Sense for Drug Policy: Afghanistan Update"Thanks to plentiful rains earlier this year and late efforts at poppy eradication, farmers in northern Afghanistan say they ;re enjoying a bumper crop of the opium -producing plant this season . It ;s hard to make . Washington D.C.: Potomic Books , 2009. Joel Hafvenstein was hired for perhaps the most . Opium season: a year on the Afghan frontier (2007) Hayes, Judi. Opium Season , by Joel Hafvenstein — Registan.netThis memoir is more the story of how truly screwed up the international community in Afghanistan is than anything specific about the “ year ” (it was really more like six months) he spent on the “ frontier .” Probably the most interesting portion of the beginning passages of the book , aside from the sinking feeling that accompanies the “I was clueless but willing, so they sent me” meme, is Hafvenstein ;s discussion of how USAID and their contractors operate. It begins with Hafvenstein ;s . "Opium Brides"). As well as the . . Within months the mission was in . It is a realm