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DukeNasty2020 15 points ago +15 / -0

2372 killed over 20k injured and 2 trillion dollars later to make Afghanistan the world's leading illicit opium producer since 2001. Afghanistan's opium poppy harvest produces more than 90% of illicit heroin globally, and more than 95% of the European supply.

https://archive.is/BHFYg

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WalkFastGoHome 10 points ago +10 / -0

We were there to protect the poppies.

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Demokraut_No_More 7 points ago +7 / -0

Burn all the fields on the way out.

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covfefeforever 1 point ago +1 / -0

Then how would the 21 American intelligence get their Operation OMB money?

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D0NNIE_DARK0 5 points ago +5 / -0

Don’t forget America’s opioid epidemic since we’ve been there. The one thing the Taliban had in check were those poppy fields.

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OJ_Epstein 3 points ago +4 / -1

Fighting terrorism while profiting off heroinism