You are one clueless dude....
Ted Rall is the quintessential douchebag, but he isn’t lieing and is factually correct regarding the clusterfark in Afghanistan due to US and NATO decisions over the last 24 months. The Marine Corp. High Command has been pressing for over 18 months to have the Marines take over the entire Afghan mission, the Marines command structure saw this collapse coming, and they were denied by the Bush administration and Pentagon politics.
Michael Yon was sounding the alarm in Afghanistan in October of 2006, the situations he described in 2006 are now 2 opium harvests in the past.
In the 2007 harvest, the Taliban cut a deal with the Iranian military, for over a (at a minimum) two week period, the only vehicles allowed on west bound Northern Iranian highways were Taliban opium smugglers’ truck convoys. This was witnessed by a group of intrepid British/Aussie/Irish travellers travelling against the opium traffic on these highways.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=Lpp&q=ozbus+iran+opium&btnG=Search