The US troops are guarding the poppy fields so rich Americans.........high in the US government.........in our Congress and the military can consume drugs.....
How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan | News ...
https://www.theguardian.com/.../how-the-heroin-trade-explains-the-us-uk-failure-in-af...
Jan 9, 2018 - It was during the cold war that the US first intervened in Afghanistan, backing Muslim militants who were fighting to expel the Soviet Red Army. .... With the return of some three million refugees to a war-ravaged land, the opium fields were an employment godsend, requiring nine times as many labourers to ...Opium fuels the stalemate in America's longest war - CNN - CNN.com
https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/25/opinions/opium-fuels...afghanistan.../index.html
Aug 9, 2017 - Peter Bergen writes that the resurgent Taliban have captured almost all of the key poppy-growing Afghan province of Helmand. If Helmand were ... The rest of the population -- about 6 million -- live in areas where the Taliban and the government are vying for control, according to senior US military officials.Opium production in Afghanistan - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
Another obstacle to getting rid of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan is the reluctant collaboration between US forces and Afghan warlords in hunting drug traffickers. In the absence of Taliban, the warlords largely control the opium trade but are also highly useful to the U.S. forces in scouting, providing local intelligence, ...
Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. ...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/...american-troops...afghan-opium...heroin.../5358053
Feb 14, 2018 - Fueling both sides, in fact, the opium and heroin industry is both a product of the war and an essential source for continued conflict. Public Intelligence has published a series of photographs showing American – and U.S.-trained Afghan – troops patrolling poppy fields in Afghanistan. Public Intelligence ...US Bombs Opium Labs in Afghanistan, But Leaves Poppy Fields
https://www.telesurtv.net/.../US-Bombs-Opium-Producing-Laboratory-Sites-in-Afghan...
Nov 21, 2017 - The airstrikes, Operation Jagged Knife, were part of a joint U.S.-Afghan offensive targeting the source of Taliban revenue – drug facilities in northern Helmand Province. Commander of U.S. forces Gen. John Nicholson said 10 facilities were hit. "We hit the labs where they turn poppy into heroin,” Nicholson ...America Is Losing Yet Another Drug War—in Afghanistan | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/.../america-is-losing-yet-another-drug-war-in-afghanistan/
Nov 13, 2017 - Had American Special Operations forces and airpower not intervened to relieve “Why Don't We Bomb Afghanistan's Poppy Fields?
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/.../why-dont-we-bomb-afghanistans-poppy-fiel...
True, our nonlethal attempts over the last 15 years to curb Afghan opium-poppy production—which accounts for about 90 percent of the world's supply—have come up short. And it's not like we've been stingy with air strikes generally: U.S. forces hit Afghanistan with more than 140 in the first seven months of 2016 alone.
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