We’re #1...in the heroin business!: US Lost in Afghanistan, But Did Make Afghanistan World’s Top Heroin Exporter

By Jack Balkwill

...The US government pretends to care about eradicating opium production in Afghanistan, while production soars to record levels.  Can this be an accident? 

The largest marketplace for illegal drugs continues to be the United States, despite a decades-long so-called "war on drugs."  Can this be an accident? 

And can it be an accident that between 2002 and 2013, the 11 years that the US has been occupying and fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, heroin use in the US has risen 60% and deaths from heroin have quadrupled, with 8200 heroin deaths in 2013 alone?

Recall that when the government wanted to stop the recent anti-banker democracy movement known as "Occupy," it did so in a matter of months, showing clearly where its priorities and capabilities lie.  As was exposed in ThisCantBeHappening, the Obama Administration coordinated efforts nationally with individual cities, where tear gas, beatings, pepper spray, jailing and other tactics were used to deny the right of the people to peaceably assemble. There was even a bizarre plot in Houston to have leaders of the small Occupy movement there murdered using “suppressed rifle fire” – a plot the FBI knew about, but did nothing to prevent. (Apparently that plan, whose conspirators were never identified publicly, was called off because Occupy famously had no “leaders” who could be targeted.)

That the US government cannot similarly crack down successfully on the annual importation of billions of dollars worth of illegal drugs should cause anyone not comatose to at least question the system...

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