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2023-06-06 Afghanistan

Afghan Drug Trade; Cartels, Trafficking Route, and Government Complicity

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-06 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [17 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 "These cartels use Pak sources to facilitate the acquisition of chemicals required to produce drugs." The Pakistan military intelligence ISI has been directly involved in the Afghan drug trade for more than half a century.
There is no sense in asking for CIA/DIA studies on this; the USA has funded Pakistan for longer than that, and no one in Washington wants to reveal that history of policy failure. Check back in 75 years.

Posted by Tarzan Grolump8219 2023-06-06 07:26|| 2023-06-06 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ There is no sense in asking for CIA/DIA studies on this; the USA has funded Pakistan for longer than that, and no one in Washington wants to reveal that history of policy failure.

If it's worked successfully for seven decades, it's probably not a US government failure.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-06 07:30|| 2023-06-06 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 If what has worked successfully? I gather you are being ironic.

Posted by Tarzan Grolump8219 2023-06-06 07:39|| 2023-06-06 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 So sort of like Mexico.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-06-06 07:59|| 2023-06-06 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 @#2 - Kinda like that economic blockade of Cuba...60+ years and just running like a top.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-06-06 08:16|| 2023-06-06 08:16|| Front Page Top

#6 It is not enough cash to keep the Taliban afloat. It will take the Chinese exploiting their resources.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-06 09:58|| 2023-06-06 09:58|| Front Page Top

#7 What? Did you really think the Taliban would stop it?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-06-06 12:26|| 2023-06-06 12:26|| Front Page Top

#8 It is not enough cash to keep the Taliban afloat.

The US is still giving the Afghans $1 billion/year and The United Nations and humanitarian agencies have revised the budget for Afghanistan's aid plan for 2023 to $32 billion, down from $4.6 billion earlier in the year, the U.N. humanitarian office said on Monday.. The Taliban, of course, get first dibs.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-06 13:40|| 2023-06-06 13:40|| Front Page Top

#9 That's $3.2 billion. Period didn't copy/paste correctly.

Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-06-06 13:44|| 2023-06-06 13:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Yet the people are starving an fleeing to Iran.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-06 14:47|| 2023-06-06 14:47|| Front Page Top

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