Afghanistan Security is a Complex Issue: Taliban, Drug Trafficking, Terrorist Attacks

This show went live at Russia Today satellite TV channel 07/20/2010 Afghanistan's state is in a condition of freefall with a completely disintegrated social, political and economic infrastructure, said Igor Khokhlov, fellow with the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. "Most of Afghanistan's territory has already fallen to Taliban control and [Afghan president] Hamid Karzai does not control his own capital," Khokhlov revealed, adding that at the time of the conference four explosions occurred in Kabul alone. The United States had focused all its efforts on Iraq and lost initiative in Afghanistan. Now the whole of the Central Asian region, likely including former Soviet republics, are falling into the hands of the Taliban. American generals who are in charge in Afghanistan are trying to solve the country's problems by military means, yet there are social, economic and political problems. "The basic problem of those countries is failed nation building," Khokhlov concluded.