We have ended poppy eradication, a radical change, because all we were doing by eradicating poppy seeds--poppy crops--was driving farmers--poor farmers--into the hands of the Taliban.
Holbrooke explains the shift in strategy regarding poppy eradication to avoid pushing farmers towards the Taliban.
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