Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade

[avalonofmists]

I think this issue is the primary reason we should just get out of Afgan.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Americans-Are-Deeply-Invol-by-Glen-Ford-091129-86.html

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Americans Are Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade


By Glen Ford (about the author)

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the poppy
The U.S. set the stage for the Afghan (and Pakistan) war eight years ago, when it handed out drug dealing franchises to warlords on Washington's payroll. Now the Americans, acting as Boss of All Bosses, have drawn up hit lists of rival, “Taliban” drug lords. “It is a gangster occupation, in which U.S.-allied drug dealers are put in charge of the police and border patrol.”
U.S.-allied drug dealers are put in charge of the police and border patrol, while their rivals are placed on American hit lists.”

If you're looking for the chief kingpin in the Afghanistan heroin trade, it's the United States. The American mission has devolved to a Mafiosi-style arrangement that poisons every military and political alliance entered into by the U.S. and its puppet government in Kabul. It is a gangster occupation, in which U.S.-allied drug dealers are put in charge of the police and border patrol, while their rivals are placed on American hit lists, marked for death or capture. As a result, Afghanistan has been transformed into an opium plantation that supplies 90 percent of the world's heroin.

An article in the current issue of Harper's magazine explores the inner workings of the drug-infested U.S. occupation, it's near-total dependence on alliances forged with players in the heroin trade. The story centers on the town of Spin Boldak, on the southeastern border with Pakistan, gateway to the opium fields of Kandahar and Helmand provinces. The chief Afghan drug lord is also the head of the border patrol and the local militia. The author is an undercover U.S.-based journalist who was befriended by the drug lord's top operatives and met with the U.S. and Canadian officers that collaborate with the drug dealer on a daily basis.

The alliance was forged by American forces during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and has endured and grown ever since. The drug lord, and others like him throughout the country, is not only immune to serious American interference, he has been empowered through U.S. money and arms to consolidate his drug business at the expense of drug-dealing rivals in other tribes, forcing some of them into alliance with the Taliban. On the ground in Pashtun-speaking Afghanistan, the war is largely between armies run by heroin merchants, some aligned with the Americans, others with the Taliban. The Taliban appear to be gaining the upper hand in this Mafiosa gang war, the origins of which are directly rooted in U.S. policy.

“It is a war whose order of battle is largely defined by the drug trade.”....................

[MNDemNY]

1. Silly, that is the reason we are escalating!

[PDJane]

2. Standard Operating Procedure for the CIA....

money in drugs, then more money in drug control...not much wonder the war on drugs isn't working.

[Echo In Light]

3. America’s Afghanistan: The National Security and a Heroin-Ravaged State (Peter Dale Scott)

http://www.japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3145

Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Northern Alliance, and drug-trafficking:
http://www.peterdalescott.net/q3.html


The Global Drug Meta-Group:
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/global-drug.htm