Why US refusing to stop huge drug industry in occupied Afghanistan?

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    • Afghanistan produced about 7000 tonnes of opium last year, which is equivalent to 700 tonnes of heroin. With more than 70 per cent of coca crops eradicated in Colombia and only 3 per cent in Afghanistan. More than 2300 sq. km of coca crops are destroyed in Colombia annually, yet only 20 sq. km of drug crops were destroyed in Afghanistan last year. The UN General Assembly has adopted a number of resolutions on the issue. For example, there is the Political Declaration on Drug Control that the UN General Assembly adopted in 1998. In September 2009, the UN General Assembly reaffirmed that declaration and said crop eradication was of strategic importance. By the way, all countries, including NATO countries, signed that resolution. Why US is not applying the same standard that it applied in Latin America. /// Drug production in Afghanistan has had a 40-fold increase since the US led invasion of the country in 2001. But why the US refuse to stop this dangerous and evil industry in occupied Afghanistan? Maybe like in the 80's, the Russophobes in the US government don't mind fostering the terrorist networks in their strong desire to hurt neighboring Russia by killing tens of thousands of young Russians with a new covert action of narcotics flow. Estimates of how much money the former US administrations channeled to the Afghan rebels during Soviet war with Islamic extremists vary, but most sources put the figure between $5 billion and $6 billion or more. If this is true, it is a <b>...</b>
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