How about the record poppy crop in … Afghanistan!
Afghanistan, under our protection from religious fundamentalists, has almost cornered a monopoly on the world supply of opium poppies!
Democracy and capitalism when properly protected by an all volunteer army can … create a narco-state! Yeah, Rah, Bush!
Details on the rapid transformation of our purely heroic goals in Afghanistan into active support for the poppy growers.
With over $400 million in U.S. dollars targeting ‘drugs’ in Afghanistan last year, this year “Afghanistan is providing close to 95 percent of the world’s heroin,” the State Department’s top counternarcotics official, Tom Schweich, said at a recent conference. “That makes it almost a sole-source supplier” and presents a situation “unique in world history.”
“Afghanistan last year accounted for 92 percent of global opium production, compared with 70 percent in 2000 and 52 percent a decade earlier. The higher yields in Afghanistan brought world production to a record high of 7,286 tons in 2006, 43 percent more than in 2005.”
The street value? About $38 billion. More than the $8.8 billion GDP of Afghanistan as estimated by the CIA for 2006.
How much foreign aid has Afghanistan received? Commitments total $24 billion since 2002.
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