[RaceWon]

90% of the world's heroin supply is from the Poppy fields in Afghanistan, and everyone knows where those fields are. Do we (the USA) destroy those plants in our Drug War efforts... nah. Some reports say US troops even guard them.

[acct1771]

Many reports.

[RaceWon]

I believe it was in the book "Everything We Had" (although I am not certain of the source, because I read about it a while ago) that the only reason we were in Nam, was so the CIA could protect the Poppy plants which they needed to fund their Black Ops.

[nyolfen]

you need to read better books

[RaceWon]

You're a clever bastid

[RaceWon]

Sorry, did I say that out loud??

[RaceWon]

It seems it was not in the aforementioned book after all, which btw was a good read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traf...

[dang]

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?