By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Afghanistan increased its poppy, opium, heroin and morphine production this year. It is now a $3 billion industry that increased by a billion dollars since last year.
This illicit market is placing the entire reconstruction of Afghanistan in serious crisis.
The United States has given about $7 billion towards Afghani reconstruction. The money was given under the condition that the poppy trade would shut down.
John Sopko, the United States SpecialInspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, told a US House subcommittee that the drugs are helping the Taliban and creating corruption.
If drugs become their central export it will be clear that Afghanistan will move further down the road and become a narco state, a state that is funded through and revolves around drugs.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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