What A Disgrace. Joe Biden.

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Are we getting right information about what happened in Afghanistan ?


6 Questions we NEED to ask about Afghanistan



Were Talibans unopposed ? Did they win or was it all a deal , that US troops & afgan army let them take country ?

I think the part of the excellent article from Off-Guardian that mentions the poppy fields is a very important
factor if such a deal was brokered.


"WHAT ABOUT THE HEROIN?

The press has a long history of, not just lying about Afghan heroin, but totally inverting the truth.
In 2019 for example, during the farcical “leak” of the Afghanistan Papers, the press lamented the
US’ “failure to curb” the opium trade.

Afghanistan currently produces around 90% of global heroin. When the US invaded in 2001, that
number was much closer to zero. The Taliban outlawed the growing of opium poppies in early 2001
and by the end of the year the business was almost extinct.

The US invaded in November 2001, and opium production has increased almost every year since then.
We don’t need to go into the CIA’s links to the drug trade here, or how much money people have made
from this heroin production. That’s not relevant, what we need to ask is, what now?

Will the newly-reinstated Taliban put an end to this trade again? Or will production continue?

According the press, the heroin will continue to flow. In fact the Taliban will increase production because
the “illegal drug trade helps fuel” them.

Reuters reports that the US plan to halt heroin production “failed”, and that the opoium trade is a “boon”
for the Taliban. The Telegraph headlines that “Taliban mulls flooding the West with heroin to shore up
Afghan economy”. So we should be prepared for the illegal heroin trade to increase now the US has
“withdrawn” from Afghanistan.

But the idea that heroin benefits the Taliban, and the US wants to put an end to it is a myth. Afghan heroin
is, and always has been, a US/Deep State/corporate enterprise to the bone.

And, If the Taliban do allow the US to continue to use their land to mass-produce heroin, that is yet another
piece of evidence supporting a deal between the Taliban and the West..."