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90% of the world's heroin supply is from the Poppy fields in Afghanistan, and everyone knows where those fields are. Do we (the USA) destroy those plants in our
by RaceWon 8y ago
90% of the world's heroin supply is from the Poppy fields in Afghanistan, and everyone knows where those fields are. Do we (the USA) destroy those plants in our Drug War efforts... nah. Some reports say US troops even guard them.
- acct1771 8y agoMany reports.
- RaceWon 8y agoI believe it was in the book "Everything We Had" (although I am not certain of the source, because I read about it a while ago) that the only reason we were in Nam, was so the CIA could protect the Poppy plants which they needed to fund their Black Ops.
- nyolfen 8y agoyou need to read better books
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- RaceWon 8y agoSorry, did I say that out loud??
- dang 8y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
- RaceWon 8y agoIt seems it was not in the aforementioned book after all, which btw was a good read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traf...
- RaceWon 8y agoYou're a clever bastid