This might lead Afghanistan into a situation of no return: becoming a narco-state that drifts away from any form of rule of law and disengages itself from the fragile social contract with its own citizens that it has started to establish. As New York University’s Barnett Rubin, an expert on Afghan society, has put it: “Afghanistan cannot be stabilized while the most dynamic sector of its economy is illegal, nor if more than half of its economy is destroyed.”
这可能会将阿富汗引入不归之路，也就是成为一个游离于法制之外、脱离刚刚开始建立的、其与自身国民之间的脆弱的社会契约的昏迷国家。正如纽约大学教授、阿富汗问题专家巴内特·鲁宾所言：“如果阿富汗最具有活力的经济部门是非法的话，它就不可能得到稳定。如果其超过一半的经济被毁，也不可能做到稳定。”