Afghanistan's Taleban Insurgency Fueled by Drug, Terrorist Money
More than 90 percent of the world's illegal opium comes from Afghanistan and drug lords thrive on political instability to protect their illicit trade.
Afghan authorities say these drug lords provide the Taleban with hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to buy people and weapons, and access to valuable smuggling routes across the border with Pakistan.
This alliance has forced the Taleban to literally sell out a core principle that drug use and cultivation is unIslamic. The hard-line Islamists are now forcing local farmers to grow the illegal opium poppy on behalf of their drug lord bankers. How does a country end up in this kind of shape? Their chief crop and export is Opium. The majority of the jobs in this country are related to the opium trade. Without it their economy would be in trouble. How does that happen? An entire economy based around drugs? That alone is reason enough to invade that country. To free these people from drug lords. Assuming they want to be saved.
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