Can It Be More Plain Than This?

Afghan surge troops won't target drug crops

"Brigadier General Larry Nicholson, commander of 10,000 Marines in Helmand, which produces the bulk of Afghanistan's and the world's opium crop, said his forces did not want to alienate local farmers by targeting the crop.
"The reality we have to face right now is that the number one cash crop in this area is still the poppy. We are not making war with the poppy farmer," Nicholson said in an interview with Reuters and CNN at Camp Leatherneck, the Marines' sprawling desert base in Helmand.
The U.S. Marine force in southern Afghanistan is set to nearly double over the next few months, the main combat element in the first wave of 30,000 reinforcements dispatched by President Barack Obama this month.
Efforts to persuade farmers to grow other crops in Helmand have had some success, in part because of the high price of wheat and a glut of opium."

And why is there a glut of opium?
This is why.

UN wants 'flood of drugs' in Afghanistan to devalue opium

The difference in what we're being told are the intentions of the occupiers and the reality on the ground means that they have to try to convince us of all sorts of twisted logic and convoluted garbage. More opium is good, not going after the plants in the ground is sound drug policy. Really. It's astounding that anyone would buy any of this idiocy.
Some people aren't fooled by what the fascists are up to.

Iran says US, UK, Canada assist Afghan drug trade

"A senior Iranian anti-drug official has accused the US, Britain and Canada of playing a major role in Afghanistan's lucrative drug trade."
""According to our indisputable information, the presence of the United States, Britain and Canada has not reduced the dug trade and the three countries have had major roles in the distribution of drugs," IRIB quoted Taheri as saying on Thursday."

Cheap, high potency heroin flooding into the US