Bags full of cash, armored cars, and an overbearing defense secretary: The former U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan recalls the frenetic days after 9/11, when Washington suddenly discovered the country.
If Europe and the US had their way, the drugs from Afghanistan would end their journey to the west at the border with Tajikistan. But such a proposal requires more resources than such a desperately poor country can manage. Tobias Asmuth reports