From Breitbart:
Post 9/11 Afghanistan: Opium Cultivation, Production Increases Nearly 20-Fold
Since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the area under opium cultivation in the country has increased 23 fold to an area nearly ten times the size of Washington, D.C., while production of the illicit drug has skyrocketed 18-fold, from 185 metric tons to 3,300.
Opium cultivation and production has thrived over the course of the Afghanistan war despite a dramatic drop after the U.S. and NATO ended their combat mission in Afghanistan and withdrew most of their troops at the end of 2014.
Obama's fingerprints are all over this along with John Kerry (sworn in as Sec. State in 2013). We had won Afghanistan - they were our friends and allies. We turned around and deserted them without making sure they had a strong government in place. We announced that we were leaving and we left them and the terrorists waited until we were gone and moved right in.
Obama wanted to be able to declare victory in Afghanistan and Iraq so he said we won and pulled our military out. Nothing was further from the truth. And then you have that little putz Bradley Manning who released the documents naming Afghan natives who were our friends - he has many hundreds if not thousands of horrible deaths on his hands. Edward Snowden did something very similar but he had the fscking grace to go through and redact people's names and identities first.
Amid the ongoing heroin epidemic in the United States that is killing thousands, the White House and other government agencies have sounded the alarm on Afghanistan heroin possibly flowing into the U.S. through Canada, where most of the heroin available is from Afghanistan.
“There is also an increase in transshipments of Afghanistan heroin going to Canada, a development of concern that is being addressed by Canada with support from the United States,” noted the White House last year.
The profits from this is going to fund terrorism and the expansion of groups like ISIS - we could have cut this down to a trickle but for Obama and Kerry's stupidity.
