But a successful strategy – one that responds to Afghanistan’s extreme poverty crisis –requires that the international community reverse course on crop eradication. In fact, the eradication of poppy crops not only damage local communities and undermines the international community’s goals, but it is also failing: opium production last year was at an all-time high.
但是一个成功的战略—一个应对阿富汗的极端贫困危机的战略—需要国际社会在铲除鸦片的问题上反其道而行之。实际上，铲除罂粟作物不但破坏了当地民生、阻碍了国际社会实现其目标，而且也是失败的：去年的鸦片生产创历史新高。在九月，联合国毒品犯罪办公室宣布罂粟种植创纪录地增长了60%。