references34 Ibid.; sigar, April 2017, ‘Reprioritizing Afghanistan Reconstruction’,
http://www.sigar.mil.
35 sigar, ‘Afghanistan’s Mineral, Oil, and Gas Industries: Unless u.s. Agencies
Act Soon to Sustain Investments, $488 Million in Funding is at Risk’, sigar
15-55 Audit Report, April 2015, http://www.sigar.mil.
36 Figures for drug addicts in these countries vary greatly. See Lionel Beehner,
Afghanistan’s Role in Iran’s Drug Problem, 13 September 2006; Brian
Morales, Afghanistan National Drug Use Survey 2012, International Society
of Substance Use Professionals (issup), 20 October 2016, http://www.issup.net;
Council on Foreign Relations, http://www.cfr.org; unodc, World Drug Report,
2017, http://www.unodc.org.
37 John F. Sopko, ‘The Fifteen Year Experiment: An Update on the Afghanistan
Reconstruction Effort’, presented to the Centre for International Policy
Studies and the Fragile States Network, University of Ottawa, 5 April 2017,
http://www.sigar.mil.
38 sigar, 35th (April 2017) Quarterly Report to Congress, 1 May 2017; sigar,
High-risk List, Afghanistan, 2016, http://www.sigar.mil.
39 Sopko, ‘The Fifteen Year Experiment’, p. 10.
40 ‘American Embassy in Kabul to Secretary of State, Washington’, 7 February
2007, nsa, New Documents, 9/11, no. 25, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu.