My, how time flies! Something to think about; we’ve been in Afghanistan for almost 5 years now. And how has that helped the average Afghani? How about “a marked increase in power for regional and factional warlords…reducing Afghanistan to little more than a collection of private armies, militias, and security forces in a constant state of war.”
And this, “Opium production is up 40% in Afghanistan and shows no signs of slowing. Despite official policies to the contrary, the drug trade is Afghanistan’s most valuable export. The country’s poppy crop yields some 450 tons of Heroin, constituting as much as 90% of the world’s supply and more than 50% of the Afghani GNP”
In the 1980’s, The Soviets learned that Afghanistan is not really a nation at all but is a collection of warring factions or tribes. And it cost the Soviets dearly to learn that. What will it cost us?
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