Summary
All recent military interventions by the west (with the partial exception of East Timor) have proved a real boost for organised crime. The lessons from Yugoslavia (not to mention Plan Colombia) were crystal clear by 2001. And yet, in its rush to establish a military presence in Afghanistan following 9/11, the US created the conditions in which the producers and distributors of heroin were able to enjoy a renaissance.
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Mob Rule
In 1995, at the UN General Assembly's 50th-anniversary bash, the then American president, Bill Clinton, unveiled his fears about the dark side of globalisation. Organised crime and terror, he suggested, stood side by side as the twin Darth Vaders of the post-cold-war world. Since 9/11, however, terror has become unchallenged as the number one fear of Britain and the US, while organised crime has become much less of a concern. This shift in priorities is convenient for all involved, given that terror courts publicity relentlessly and organised crime shuns it. Trebles all round. Yet our obsession with terror distracts us from the m...
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