US spends $7bn but fails to stop Afghan opium (illegal, drug, Afghanistan)

[Simon Feltser]

America's drug war in Afghanistan is failing badly, according to a new report from a U.S. government watchdog.
Afghan farmers are growing record bumper crops of opium poppies, an unprecedented 209,000 hectares in 2013, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. This despite various U.S. agencies spending $7.6 billion to try to stop narcotics production in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is the source of 80% of the world's illegal opium. US goverment is trying to control the situation in Afghanistan...hereof US goverment is the source of 80% of the world's illegal opium. Why else would we still be in Afghanistan?

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by Simon Feltser

America's drug war in Afghanistan is failing badly, according to a new report from a U.S. government watchdog.
Afghan farmers are growing record bumper crops of opium poppies, an unprecedented 209,000 hectares in 2013, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. This despite various U.S. agencies spending $7.6 billion to try to stop narcotics production in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is the source of 80% of the world's illegal opium. US goverment is trying to control the situation in Afghanistan...hereof US goverment is the source of 80% of the world's illegal opium. Why else would we still be in Afghanistan?

Not our problem, not our continent. Let Europe deal with theirs and we deal with ours from South America.

[415_s2k]

I wish the US would stop wasting money on fruitless morality crusades and focus on reforming its education system.

[Texabama]

None of our business - waste of money.