Taliban trying to turn US troops into Heroin Addicts

Insurgents in Afghanistan are using heroin as a tactical weapon against US forces, hoping to emulate the drug problems that plagued US troops in Vietnam and Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s, says a new investigative report.
In a report at the Daily Beast, author Gerald Posner cites "an internal US intelligence report" that "concluded [insurgents] are targeting American troops in an effort to undermine their effectiveness, while raising cash to pay for new recruits and weaponry."

The report brings up inevitable comparisons to the Vietnam War of the 1960s and 1970s and the Soviet war in Afghanistan that ended two decades ago. It also raises the possibility that the conflict in Afghanistan will spill over into the streets of America as returning troops bring their addictions home with them.
Posner told MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan on Tuesday that drug addiction played a major role in the military failure of those two wars.

"In Vietnam we ended up with a nearly 20 percent addiction rate to China White," Posner said. (A 1971 report on drug addiction among US soldiers in Vietnam pegged the number closer to 15 percent.)

"Soviet soldiers came back from Afghanistan with addictions," Posner continued, noting that Russia is now the world's largest per-capita user of heroin "as a result of those returning Soviet fighters."

Posner said the Army and the Veterans Administration are "preparing in their hospitals for what might be a deluge" of addicted soldiers coming home from Afghanistan.

"Today's Taliban are yesterday's mujaheddin, who fought the Soviets," Posner said on MSNBC's Morning Meeting. "They understand that this is an additional weapon."

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[LR93uk]

If the USA wanted to they could shut down these poppy and destroy them all, anyway asking themselves why they wont?

[Nationalism4Life]

@LR93uk The US government doesn't really care about their troops. It's the same with the British government. It's laughable to even suggest that our governments are American and British. They are the most anti-patriotic governments we've ever had.

[danieljdeluca]

End the War America.

You want to fix this, do something different tomorrow.

Send the troops home and lets make the world a better place.

Change begins with me.

Care to join me?

Semper Fi

[Nationalism4Life]

I agree, and I wish the British government would bring back the British troops.

[umustwantme]

They want to place the blame on the "boogyman" taliban again.. is it REALLY their fault?? Or should we look for blame a lil closer to home?? Why the fuck are we over there?? Let's look at our fucking borders, and not the ones in the middle east. I seems to be a way of destroying our youth.

[MrBullfrog9876]

@neseapo Why would we blow up our biggest drug supply in the world?

[MrBullfrog9876]

Ok so here is the problem, the soldiers have nothing to do because they are not fighting the Taliban ---so send them home. If the Taliban are making money off of the poppy fields then destroy the fields---Oh we are protecting the fields? and the Taliband destroyed them in the early 2000's. These men in the media are LIARS!

[TheScorpian91]

the opium or heroin in Taliban'S regime had been reduced to 3.5% but aftar taking over Afghanistan by US forces it reaches upto worlds 90%...so who is terrorist

[Schonward01]

JFK tried to warn us of secret societies and he was going to breakdown the FBI because he wanted public accountability. Think about it who polices the police? They have all had power without anyone to govern them. FBI , ATF , CIA. It is now showing how corrupt they have become. ATF sells guns to Mexico. Us soldiers protecting drugs. Who will stop them? Remember JFK was taken in daylight with everyone watching. It's to late now. We have gone to far to turn back. They are in control and we can't

[Audascity1]

Drugs! Drugs! what goes around comes around! it's called Karma!! The U. S. government has been doing this for Centuries right here in the good ole U.S.A to it's own citizens in certain neighborhoods can you guess which ones?

[luisagarcia1991]

The funds also come from the C.I.A.... just to let everyone know!!

[69heheh69]

i know a guy who died serving in the middle east from heroine overdose found him dead in his bed one morning..