Filthy Lucre: Afghan drug profits too juicy to resist

America's approach to tackling the flow of illegal drugs from Afghanistan is misguided. This criticism from Russia's anti-drugs chief who believes a complete eradication of poppy fields is the only solution - a position not currently shared by the U.S. However, this reluctance now has some asking if the deadly business is proving simply too lucrative to destroy.

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[thegreendestiny]

Of course the US doesn't want to destroy those fields. Where else can Hillary get her supply?

[SuspiciousPatriot]

America will not destroy the opium crops for the same reason that you don't destroy your house every night, when you come home. One does not destroy one's own property.

Anyone who hasn't figured out this scam, the same as the cocaine scam, isn't looking very hard; America is behind the drug trade; both heroin and coke.

Just say NO - to drug profits, America. Profits from sales. Profits from incarcerating people in private jails.

[rob7270]

@Oceanetic sounds like your injecting you fool

[Gozzmaster]

The tide is turning

[WhiteSpark2]

Our country has problems, like all, but our military is sending a message. Our true enemies know why we are in those fields. All these anti-American opinions come from the true sheep who do the enemies work here at home. But just so you know, these easily led are considered extreme. True Americans see the manipulation spoonfeed to these selfhaters and recognize who we're really dealing with. Can you feel the end coming? ;) It's going to be some great lulz!

[jaf4417]

@SuspiciousPatriot That sounds like a conspiracy theory, and we all know conspiracies don't exist. There has never been one conspiracy in the history of the World, right?

Duh, I am the average retarded american mind controlled idiot with an Obama 2012 sticker on my jap car

[Oceanetic]

Opium has been known in Asia for 6,000 years! Addiction started when the Western - British, precisely - came to know it. Eastern mind used it as a remedy, Western on the ohter hand, used it for... what u can see today. The problem mentioned in this video, just diverts your minds. Real problem is somewhere else. Think it this way: "drugs are devestating." OK, I know that, and I want to use it! Sure I cannot. But I can go to a doctor, get some chemical much worse than drugs.

[zeus7623]

@JonDYou you're way off base with that comment. To understand any issue, you need to look at from various view points. Just because you get info from one source or another doesn't mean your personal belief system is tied to that media bias. Geo-politics isn't black and white, it's more a grey area. Calling me a traitor? Fuck off idiot troll...

[VRtechman]

I gotta wonder what would happen if all those poppies were to just disappear what the drug users do? I wonder how many people in Washington DC would call in sick for the month?

[TheFranksantana]

Russia can talk tough all they want but they are best buddies with the USA.

[AnnoyingTypoSyndrome]

At last, a proper news station airs this !

The British and US govts are BLATANTLY making HUGE profits form the drugs trade, and they dont want it to stop.

According to ALEX JONES, they are actually fighting to keep the taliban in control.

These are sick sick people, and they feed the habitsd of millions of smack heads, to suck the life out of them.

If Bin Laden couldnt geta bomb in here, how do all the drugs get in ?

Answer: in military aircraft and ships !

Sad, but true.