U.S. Will Target Opium Production in Afghanistan

May 1st, 2009

What I think is happening here is that the USUK smack industrial complex has decided to drive up the street price of heroin.

My theory will be confirmed if we hear that Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan includes counter-narcotics operations…

If heroin money is going to be used to buy U.S. Treasuries, it would be desirable for the price of heroin to be as high as possible. We’re in an economic crisis, after all. This is no time for cheap heroin!

The Invisible Hand of the Market: British Troops Seize £50 Million of Afghan Opium

Via: New York Times:

American commanders are planning to cut off the Taliban’s main source of money, the country’s multimillion-dollar opium crop, by pouring thousands of troops into the three provinces that bankroll much of the group’s operations.

The plan to send 20,000 Marines and soldiers into Helmand, Kandahar and Zabul Provinces this summer promises weeks and perhaps months of heavy fighting, since American officers expect the Taliban to vigorously defend what makes up the economic engine for the insurgency. The additional troops, the centerpiece of President Obama’s effort to reverse the course of the seven-year war, will roughly double the number already in southern Afghanistan. The troops already fighting there are universally seen as overwhelmed. In many cases, the Americans will be pushing into areas where few or no troops have been before.

Research Credit: Druff

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