Well Why Do You Think We're In Afghanistan?

"Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers have been involved in heroin trafficking in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence said it was aware of "unsubstantiated" claims that troops were buying the drug from dealers and shipping it out of the country in military aircraft. An inquiry is focusing on British and Canadian personnel at airports in Camp Bastion and Kandahar. Security has been tightened, with additional sniffer dogs being used. Afghanistan is the source of 90% of the world's opium. Some drug bosses in the country have implicated soldiers in the trade.

Last year the Sunday Times spoke to one dealer who said members of the military were the second largest buyers of heroin after foreign drug lords. The newspaper was told: "The soldiers whose term of duty is about to finish, they give an order to our boss." A team of detectives from the Ministry of Defence's special investigations branch is believed to be heading the investigation into the claims."

- Troops heroin trafficking claim investigated by MoD

Opium output in Afghanistan. Western forces invaded in late 2001, on the basis that the Saudi hijackers on 9/11, many of whom had survived flying a passenger jet into a skyscraper, may be hiding in Afghanistan. Or that CIA agent, I mean radical Saudi Islamist Osama bin Laden was hiding there, perhaps with his family who are best friends with George... oh wait. Never mind, now it's about fighting for, er, womens' rights. Yeah, that one. That's why the drones are there, they take out those damn wife beaters. Die patriarchs! Afghanistan is liquidat- er, liberated.

Anyone who thinks this is just some rogue group of soldiers is missing the point about the drug trade, the drug war, why certain drugs are illegal and who benefits from that. C'mon now, put it all together...

'War On Drugs' In Afghanistan?