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How can President Hamid Karzai stop the growing of poppies when tribal chieftains, warlords and ordinary farmers throughout Afghanistan, who benefit from the drug trade, undermine him at every turn? Seen by some as the mayor of Kabul, it is very difficult for him to display leadership when he cannot venture outside the capital without an American escort.
Even someone as aggressive and popular as President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia is having a difficult time putting an end to the drug trade in his nation.
