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Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along (www.mintpressnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I can’t believe the U.S. government actually said “the Taliban’s successful opium ban is bad for Afghans and the world”.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can. It harms the U.S. government’s war against the poor. How is the prison industrial complex going to continue to thrive if the largest exporter of opium poppy in the world doesn’t export opium producing poppy anymore?

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