Why the only winner of America’s war in Afghanistan is opium

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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