[Mb-civic] An Afghan Quandary for the U.S.

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An Afghan Quandary for the U.S. 
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Bush administration is split over a response to a likely record opium poppy crop: push for aerial eradication or let local officials handle it?

By Sonni Efron
Times Staff Writer

January 2 2005

WASHINGTON — With a bumper poppy harvest expected in Afghanistan in the new year, a debate has erupted within the Bush administration on whether the United States should push for the crop's destruction despite the objections of the Afghan government. 

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