Opium cultivation sets new record

Apparently, this year there will be a bumper crop of opium poppies in Afghanistan:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303460004579193992106490318

A record 516,000 acres of poppies will be harvested.

As I have written before, protecting the opium crop and the heroin trade are among the main reasons we are in Afghanistan in the first place:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/why-is-the-united-states-really-in-afghanistan-2/

Way to go, USA !!!