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This article from Roland Paris, associate professor of international and public affairs in the University of Ottawa and argues that NATO’s efforts to stabilize Afghanistan are set to fail. To avoid this, additional NATO troops are required, efforts to build an Afghan army should be accelerated, and corruption in the Afghan government, especially the police, needs to be tackled. Paris also argues that the policy of destroying opium crops is playing into the hands of insurgents, adding that more reconstruction aid is needed in Afghanistan, and that the flow of insurgent fighters from Pakistan also needs to be contained.
