War and the Power of Determination

War and the Power of Determination

Republished with permission from Lucian K. Truscott IV Traveling in the back of a pickup along the road between Jalalabad and Asadabad in Afghanistan in 2004, we passed through one village after another that was thriving from growing poppy, the plants whose expired flower buds produce the gummy white substance that is refined first into opium, then into heroin. All the villages that were doing well were close to Jalalabad, near the south end of …