It isn’t our troops. Certainly not in any meaningful way. Just not as possible as today’s hit movies make that seem.
But our military is responsible for it in a different way.
Our wise leaders have decreed that nobody may interfere with poppy flower production. Afghan heroin cultivation has exploded since we have been there.
The government even admits that.
It isn’t our soldiers.
If we (and that is the United States military) didn’t want opium poppies growing in Afghanistan, we might not be able to stop it but we could, and would, sure as hell put a big crimp on their cultivation. I agree with you; our government doesn’t want cultivation stopped and isn’t acting against it. But once the soldiers see what’s going on, they will make money off it if they can.
I’m sorry but it’s human nature. Again, it’s not all of them or even a significant number of them. But to deny that any are involved is naive.