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Why the only winner of America’s war in Afghanistan is opium
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from New York Post article "but when Abeyawardena asked Afghan soldiers whether they planned to continue serving their nation once the Americans left, “Almost everyone I talked to said ‘No,’ ” he told an Army historian.
“They were going to go back and grow opium or marijuana or something like that,” he recalled. “That threw me for a
complete loop.”
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