Where the US government goes, the drug trade soon follows
Surprise, surprise! Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghanistan's corrupt President Hamid Karzai, and a leading drug lord in the world's major opium-producing nation, has for eight years been on the CIA payroll.
There's a clear historical pattern here. During the Vietnam War, the CIA, and its Air America airline front-company, were up to their eyeballs in the Southeast Asian heroin trade. At the time, it was Southeast Asia, not Afghanistan, that was the leading producer and exporter of opium, mostly to the US, where there was a resulting heroin epidemic.
A decade later, in the 1980s, during the Reagan administration, the CIA was deeply involved in the smuggling of cocaine into the US, which kicked-off the crack cocaine epidemic among African American and other poor communities across the nation.
The Agency was actually using the drugs as a way to fund arms, which it then transported to the Contra forces it was backing to subvert the Sandinista government in Nicaragua. - at the time Congress had barred the US from supporting the Contras.
Afghanistan is responsible for over 90% of the world's opium production. The US effectively finances and runs the place. History and present events prove, that where the US government goes, the drug trade soon follows, and the leading role in developing and nurturing that trade appears to be played by the Central Intelligence Agency.
The issue at this point should not be how many troops the US should add to its total in Afghanistan, but about how soon Congress and the Attorney General's office can start hearings into massive corruption and drug pushing by the CIA.
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Not surprised in the least
I started looking into this ~2005 as I could not believe no one was questioning how Afganistan had a record/near recored opium harvest every year since our government was occupying the country.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: hectares used for opium cultivation: 2001-8000 & 2007-193,000, metric tons of opium per annual harvest: 2001-185 & 2007-8,200, the price per kilogram of Afghan opium: early 2003-$600 and early 2008-$100.
This is nothing more than the Phoenix Program reborn out of the Vietnam Era
Prohibitionists like Taylor, English, and Fey are being played the fool, of course with the level of intelligence of these three stooges, making fools out of them isn't exactly a hard thing to do.
Hi Aqueous! how are things cooking?
Yes, prohibitionists like Taylor, English, and Fey are being slowly forced to the realization that their lives have been devoted to a 'war' that will be viewed historically as a monumental waste of human resource and tax money. They can't possibly sustain "drinking the kool-aid" indefinitely. My guess is, they must all feel rather stupid, unfulfilled and depressed.
These misguided fools insist on maintaining and concentrating enforcement efforts on pot, but since it is far bulkier per dollar of value than either cocaine, meth or heroin, it is harder to conceal and easier to detect. This may have reduced the flow of marijuana into the US and increased its price, but the unintended consequences of this partial success are twofold: The US has emerged as one of the world's leading producers of pot, and many international drug traffickers now appear to have redirected their efforts from pot to cocaine, meth and heroin. It's like stopping jaywalking at the expense of fatal hit and runs.
Even Putin has started to stir the pot lately, and is blaming the U.S. for poisoning a whole generation of Russians with heroin. The Taliban/CIA stockpile now amounts to approx. 10,000 tons, that's about a two-year world supply. It sure looks like we have some record high times ahead!
Well its one, two, three, four
What are we fighting for?
don't ask me I don't give a damn,
Next stops Afghanistan.
And its five, six, seven, eight
Open up those pearly gates.
Ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee
We're all gonna die!
Some excerpts from a piece in yesterday's Colorado Gazette
Here's the beginning:
"Ten more Americans died this week in a senseless and pointless war in Afghanistan, fighting an enemy with allegedly supernatural powers that is impossible to kill. I’m talking about the opium poppy.
Three DEA agents and seven American servicemen lost their lives in a helicopter crash, returning from an unspecified military action against suspected narcotics traffickers. My heart goes out to their families and loved ones. But I’m glad I didn’t know them personally. If I did, it would be unforgivable of me to call their deaths tragic and unnecessary.
The war on drugs in Afghanistan is counterproductive, unwinnable, arrogant, superstitious and pointless. It wins allies for the Taliban and funnels monopoly profits right into their hands. It is a tragedy in every sense of the word, another miserable mile marker on the march of human folly.
The very idea of carrying on a war against a plant is sheer idiocy. Trying to extinguish something that is easy to produce and desperately wanted is effectively writing a check to organized crime. According to UN estimates the Taliban earn between $90 and $160 million a year from illegal heroin production. Much of that will be spent on killing Americans. How much would the Taliban get if opiates were legal?"
This is how it ends:
"Yes, I’m angry. I am angry we are subsidizing the Taliban and winning converts for them. I am angry there are people who unthinkingly support the drug war because they believe they are fighting evil. I am angry that good men are dying in a pointless war that is accomplishing nothing but enriching America’s enemies.
Some things are worth fighting for. Some things are even worth dying for. But the war on the Afghan poppy is not one of them."
http://www.gazette.com/opinion/war-64622-impossible-died.html
The highly intimate relationship between the Karzai brothers and the CIA is a clear demonstration that Prohibition is a criminal enterprise pursued by criminal methods.