The default assumption of U.S. ideology regarding the Afghan heroin spike centers on the argument of unintended consequences. In other words, "Gosh, we sure tried to stop heroin production in Afghanistan, but you know...shit happens."
http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/afghan-heroin-the-cia-519/
http://rt.com/news/156128-afghanistan-drugs-usa-heroin/
A far more interesting connection would center on the near collapse of the heroin industry after the Taliban took over most of the country; by 2001, heroin production was close to nil for the region that provides 90 percent of the world's heroin.
Somebody was losing a lot of money.
Enter 9/11, the invasion of Afghanistan, spearheaded by the CIA, which has proven a dab hand at generating drug money when needed for black ops.
Fifteen years later, and billions of dollars spent to "eradicate" the poppy fields, more heroin than ever is flowing from Afghanistan. We can argue and assume incompetence to explain this heroin spike, but it can just as easily be inferred that the point of the Afghanistan invasion was to get the heroin supply flowing again, reclaim the black market fortunes that were being lost.
The "War on Drugs" meme needs to be reframed and rethought for what it is: The war to keep the drugs flowing.
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