The question everyone should be asking is this. If we are supposedly fighting a “War on Drugs “; How is it that the country we have militarily occupied for 10+ years the largest exporter of opium???
Another article, NYT from back in 2007:
“Poppy Fields Are Now a Front Line in Afghan War “
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/world/asia/16drugs.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
“To fight a Taliban insurgency flush with drug money for recruits and weapons, the Bush administration recognizes that it must also combat the drug trafficking it had largely ignored for years. But plans to clear poppy fields and pursue major drug figures have been frustrated by corruption in the Afghan government, and derided by critics as belated half-measures or missteps not likely to have much impact.
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Poppy growing is endemic in the countryside, and Afghanistan now produces 92 percent of the world’s opium. But until recently, American officials acknowledge, fighting drugs was considered a distraction from fighting terrorists. “
The Tall-y-bahn are drug lords as well. It’s obvious when they “crack down” it’s only a short-term temporary move to strengthen their drug business.
This has all the earmarks of US financial elites having their top minions be the top dogs in the drug business, being the overseers of the drug lords. Their minions within the US government provide all the documention, in excrutiating detail, for the case of “we tried, but it just can’t be eradicated”.
This provides a lot of money for “dark projects”, feeding cash as needed where needed to “get things done”. It nicely keeps the sheeple all over the world set up with their heroin habit, making them easy to manipulate and helpful in causing corruption, moral decay, etc.
The US “eradication campaign” in Afghanistan eradicated 7,000 of 209,000 acres ? That’s a little over 3%.
The policy continues. The last three years poppy production has steadily grown.
There’s no danger of our US government being forced to stop operating their drug business, if you see how the media, education, political, societal, etc., pieces fit together.