The U.S. - Afghan War Against Drugs Is A Dysmal Failure

A member of the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, showing seized heroin. Each bag contains a street value worth $112,000 of heroin rocks. Courtesy of SAC Neil Chapman (RAF)/Wikimedia Commons

As U.S. Withdraws From Afghanistan, Poppy Trade It Spent Billions Fighting Still Flourishes -- Washington Post

The United States is withdrawing troops from Afghanistan having lost its battle against the country’s narcotics industry, marking one of the starkest failures of the 2009 strategy the Obama administration pursued in an effort to turn around the war.

Despite a U.S. investment of nearly $7 billion since 2002 to combat it, the country’s opium market is booming, propelled by steady demand and an insurgency that has assumed an increasingly hands-on role in the trade, according to law enforcement officials and counternarcotics experts. As the war economy contracts, opium poppies, which are processed into heroin, are poised to play an ever larger role in the country’s economy and politics, undercutting two key U.S. goals: fighting corruption and weakening the link between the insurgency and the drug trade.

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My Comment: $7 billion wasted. Here is an easy prediction .... once U.S. forces are gone this drug trade is only going to explode.