It pisses me off to no end that we are using blood and treasure to GUARD OPIUM FIELDS IN AFGHANISTAN......
We could at the very least be raising the crap domestically and cutting the crazy jihadis out of the profits and that would at least help the war or terror...
Instead we took the w3ar on terror and turned it into a even more dangerous Narco-War where the profits from the Opium are working against the goals of the war on terror.
It was bad enough with the Saudis taking their oil monies and dumping them into hands of Wahhabi extremists, but now we have given another income source to the crazy ass jihadis...
The secret to killing the heroin epidemic is the the cultivation and the distribution. Sabotage the cultivation by seeding the fields with DNA engineered seeds that will produce plants that do not create opium. Every plant they pollinate will have the same problem. It would be biological disaster.
In the distribution, I would have satellites monitoring the distribution system in each step from field to refinement to shipments to the drug hubs. Then we hit them hard.