Recasting the Taliban as mobsters

The World

Gretchen Peters, the author of “Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda,” believes that the Taliban can be likened to a gang like “The Sopranos.” She talks about how to fight the Taliban and why we should look at the group more as organized crime than soldiers.

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