American policy in Afghanistan is doing wonders for the opium trade. Apparently since the U.S. has pushed the Taliban out, the opium trade has prospered so much so that the Taliban has earned $200 million to $400 million last year.
The Washington Post is reporting: U.N. Finds Afghan Opium Trade Rising
Afghan opium poppy cultivation grew 17 percent last year, continuing a six-year expansion of the country’s drug trade and increasing its share of global opium production to more than 92 percent, according to the 2008 World Drug Report, released Thursday by the United Nations.
The opium trade has soared since the U.S.-led 2001 overthrow of the Taliban, which had eradicated almost all of the country’s opium poppies. The proceeds from the illicit trade are helping finance a resurgent Taliban that is battling U.S. and allied troops.
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