In 2001, liar, and former Prime Minister of U.K., Tony Blair said: “The arms the Taliban are buying today are paid for by the lives of young British people buying their drugs on British streets. This is another part of their regime we should seek to destroy.”
According to the United Nations, right now 90% of the drugs on the streets of Britain come from Afghanistan. In 2001, 185 tons of opium was shipped out of Afghanistan, in 2011 it hit 5,800 tons!!!
In the last few years Russia and Iran have openly blamed the United States for increased drug trafficking out of Afghanistan.
Since the United States is the boss in Afghanistan, then shouldn’t they have a handle on the opium trade? The latest numbers from the UN proves the United States must be complicit in drug dealing, in order for such a huge record setting increase in opium production to take place. Either that, or the United States actually has no control over anything that goes on in Afghanistan!
Some idiot warmongers are using the increasing opium numbers to justify keeping U.S. and European forces in Afghanistan, yet those drug numbers are up precisely because the U.S. and Europeans are there!