Afghanistan produces 93% of the world's supply of opium

[geetrue]

How can we stop the dealers of drugs if we can't even control the source of the drugs?

I thought we had a whole army over there to take care of this sort of thing.

The article says that 80% of the opium they grow is along the border with Pakistan, uhmm?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKISL20749120070827


"No other country has produced narcotics on such a deadly scale since China in the 19th century," a UNODC statement said


"Some 80 percent of opium poppies were grown in a handful of provinces along the border with Pakistan, where instability is greatest," the UNODC said

[waste gate]

This is the only way an Afghan gov't can stay in power. Afghanistan has no other natural resource which can be tapped as quickly and easily. I don't condone it but pragmatically it works. The Taliban forbade the opium crop and look what happened to them.

[Skybird]

Very old news.

Pages 12-18, 20-25 http://freenet-homepage.de/Skybird/Afghanistan.pdf