I'm tracking on your first paragraph. Your second is a little confusing to me. I went on opium interdiction missions in Southern Afghanistan. The Taliban runs

I'm tracking on your first paragraph. Your second is a little confusing to me. I went on opium interdiction missions in Southern Afghanistan. The Taliban runs its own opium ring down there to fund it's activities. I'm not even sure it'd be fair to say the CIA was "running the country". They trained Afghan special forces, whom I only ever saw once and that was near Kajaki Dam. The people who were digging up weapons caches, setting up field hospitals, etc that we fought in the area while doing opium interdiction didn't look anything like Afghan special forces, much less act like them.