Remember the Matrix? Remember, in the back story told to Neo by Morpheus, how the humans, in their last gambit against the machines, blotted out the sun which was powering the machines? The gambit didn't work, but it bought them more time against a dangerous enemy.
Well it turns out that poppy seed production in Afghanistan, the root of heroin, is funding the Taliban, and this production has increased 49% from 05 to 06. If the US really wants to get serious about defeating the Taliban than a good place to begin is burning down those fields. Yes, doing such will probably decimate the Afghan economy, but the US doesn't seem to be too keen on rebuilding their economy to begin with, and isn't even going to begin to help until the Taliban are destroyed. So for the Afghan public they're between a rock and a hard place. The fact remains though that the Taliban will continue to be well funded as long as their poppy supply continues to increase.
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