Resurgent Afghanistan Drug Trade Threatening US Goals, Pentagon Warns -- Christian Science Monitor
In the sharpest warnings they have ever issued on the topic, Pentagon officials told Congress the growing opium trade is threatening the costly US war effort to build a stable Afghanistan.
The drug problem in Afghanistan is growing, and it threatens to undermine the US war effort of building a stable country there, top Pentagon officials say in some of the sharpest warnings they have ever issued on the topic.
The lucrative opium trade has been surging in recent years, even as less of the crop is being seized, officials and recent reports say, and with the US military presence in the country winding down, prospects for keeping the illicit business in check are dwindling.
Just how to take on Afghanistan’s opium poppy trade, however, has long been a tricky proposition for the US military.
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My Comment: These warnings are too late. Everyone knows that U.S. forces are leaving and with it is their ability to influence official Afghan drug policy.
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Everyone knows that the Taliban did an excellent job of eradicating the Drug Crops and Drug Rings in Afghanistan from 1996-2001... and the U.S. Invasion on the pretext of 9/11 reinstated the Narco-State.
Afghan Invasion was based on demanding Taliban give up OBL. But, Osama bin Laden could not even be acquired by U.S. and NATO with all its power and military, how can Taliban do the same? Such ultimatum is a WAR CRIME.
Nevertheless, that the U.S./European Banking and Financial Sector as well as the Military of U.S./NATO are deeply involved in Drug Trade is also a well known fact. The entire Colombian Drug War Operations is outside the Congressional Oversight paid by dark pools of U.S. Treasury, Congress and Wall Street money.
Christian Science Monitor and dishonorable Pentagon should be ashamed of itself writing this kind of garbage. I hope the Jew-Bankers and Defense Contractors paid them well to prostitute themselves so poorly like a street whore.
Time to slam the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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