Washington’s massive military juggernaut has been stopped in its steel tracks by a small pink flower

     

                                      -opium poppy field, Afghanistan
 1-9-18         Washington’s massive military juggernaut has been stopped in its steel tracks by a small pink flower--the opium poppy....opium has played a central role in shaping the country’s destiny.  In one of history’s bitter ironies Afghanistan’s unique ecology converged with American military technology to transform this remote, landlocked nation into the world’s first true narco-state--a country where illicit drugs dominate the economy, define political choices and determine the fate of foreign interventions....
      The CIA looked the other way while Afghanistan’s opium production grew from about 100 tonnes annually in the 1970s to 2,000 tonnes by 1991....8200 tonnes annually by 2007,....9000 tonnes harvested in 2017.   

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/09/how-the-heroin-trade-explains-the-us-uk-failure-in-afghanistan
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5-23-18  http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/05/23/u-n-wave-high-quality-low-cost-heroin-afghanistan/
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