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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Last month, our Fox News' "War Stories" team was in Colombia, covering the tough fight against a narco-insurgency, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. This month, we're in Afghanistan, covering another narco-insurgency, the Taliban. In Colombia, cocaine fuels and funds the terror. Here in Afghanistan, it's opium. Despite extraordinary differences in culture, climate and terrain, there are dramatic parallels in the two campaigns. More importantly, lessons learned in the Andean basin are being applied here in the shadows of the Hindu Kush.
Both countries have isolated agricultural populations vulnerable to coercion by insurgents financed by...
Common Sense: Bankrupting the Taliban
The incident will revolve around him hitting on one of his cousins and she'd remark she doesn't like her coffee black and he'd be offended and play the race card.