Afghanistan 2021 Onwards

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Not so sure, ORAC. Taliban dependence on drug money is contested by some experts, and even if it does reach the $400M annual 'worst' case, that's an amount the West can easily outmatch with suitable incentives.

I suppose you believe in purple Unicorns too.

Explain to us how successful getting farmers to grow other crops instead of Opium Poppies has worked out elsewhere and including Afghanistan?

Have any examples you can offer up that confirms that strategy works?

How well did the US State Department effort in Afghanistan turn out in ending the growing of opiump poppies?

They had an entire fleet of Helicopters and joint forces operations for nearly the whole time we were in Afghanistan.

Then of course there is Columiba, Peru, and other Central and South America countries the DEA/State Department have Drug Eradication Operations and have for decades.