Why We Fight in Afghanistan

Russia invades Afghanistan.

Brzezinski and Carter develops a plan to flush Russia out by secretly supplying weapons and training to the Taliban. 

The CIA secretly creates Al-Qaeda which mean “the database” in Arabic. The Taliban gave the CIA opium in trade for this training and weapons. 

The 1980’s saw a huge heroin epidemic once we had a free flow of CIA trafficked heroin into the inner cities of this country.  Over 60% of the heroin was coming in from Afghanistan during this time. 

Al-Qaeda the “data base” was a CIA operation of agents who trained and funded Al-Qaeda including their now interim president Hamid Karzai. 

The war funded the military industry from 1979 to 1989.  Bush 41 continued to lend money to the Taliban from then until 1992.  The Taliban rose to power and become the government of Afghanistan.

 The pharmaceutical industry is the 2nd most profitable industry in the USA. 

The black market for heroin is not only lucrative worldwide, it creates crime in this country which destroys inner city poor neighborhoods and rises the prison population which also happens to be a very lucrative business for the government and private entities. 

Opium is the most important plant in the world to the pharmaceutical industry and the second to the illegal drug trade. 

Afghanistan happens to be the worlds largest producer of the poppy plant opium followed by Pakistan the country in which our troops have just happened to flush the Taliban into.  That gives us a reason to invade them as well. 

Pakistan is not only rich in resources as well but they have nuclear weapons provided by China who has a strategic interest in controlling Pakistan. 

Afghanistan is also rich in gems, marijuana (the most important drug to the illegal drug trade and prison complex and war on drugs who all lobby to keep it illegal) and also happens to have the highest potential for mineral production in the world thus far including iron ore and copper. 

In 1999 the Taliban under the law of their faith decided to start cutting production of their opium.  By 2001 the Taliban had opium production cut by 94%. 

Critics of the taliban suggest the cut in production was more cynical than that as in that they cut it to create scarcity to increase profit which makes the USA and our allies pay more for the product. 

This hurts our health care industry since it is private health insurance companies have an interest in keeping the cost down as well.  So now we have the war on drugs, the illegal drug trade, the pharmaceutical, prison, and health industry all have motive in supporting the increased production in opium. 

By 2001 production was cut to almost nothing. 

911 happens and we just so happen to invade Afghanistan before ever proving that the Taliban or Al-Qaeda was ever even linked to 911 let alone committed the act. 

After the invasion in 2002 the USA military overthrew the Taliban as the Government and selected their own “democratically” elected interim leader Hamid Karzai as president who just happens to be CIA and supporter of the Taliban during the Russian Afghan war.  Two years later production spiked back up and by 2006 opium production on the region reached record levels and still rising.