如果缺乏对灌溉系统的大力投资，包括建造水库以充分利用兴都库什（Hindu Kush）的降雪，并投资种植新的诸如藏红花和玫瑰油等经济作物，阿富汗将随着由此引发的种种不稳定性，逐渐成为一个毒品之国。
Without serious investment in irrigation, including construction of reservoirs to make use of the snowfall in the Hindu Kush, and in new cash crops such as saffron and rose oil, Afghanistan’s drift toward narco-statehood will continue, with all the instability that this implies.