War On Terror Fueling Heroin Epidemic

This must be why Obama ad-Dajjal decided to keep our troops in Afghanistan:

The “War on Drugs” and the “War on Terror” are more intertwined than that media and our elected officials would like us to think.

And this became full front and center when the U.S.-led global crusades overlapped in Afghanistan, leaving in their wake a legacy of death, addiction and government corruption tainting Afghan and American soil.

In the U.S., the War in Afghanistan is among the major contributing factors to the country’s devastating heroin epidemic.

You can read the rest @
http://www.mintpressnews.com/global-war-terror-created-heroin-epidemic-us-afghanistan/218662/

I also have written about this phenomenon. You can read my observations @
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/04/why-is-the-united-states-really-in-afghanistan-2/

And for some deep background on the subject, I refer you to Professor Alfred W. McCoy's excellent book The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.

I am not one to incite mutiny, but the best thing our troops in Afghanistan could do for We The People is to burn down the poppy fields, put down their weapons, and come home. Doing so would be far more patriotic than what they're doing now.