Poppies Are the Basis for Afghan/US Split

E-mail to Congress:

EIN News says, "Afghan President Blames Western Officials for Election Fraud. Just days after a visit by President Obama, Hamid Karzai blames foreigners for last year's problems and says they 'do not want us to have a parliamentary election' in September. (latimes.com)".

Here we start to see cracks in the dike caused by increasing political pressure. The fact is that neither the Afghan people nor the Afghan government want us in their country. They know that part of our objective for drug control in the United States is to eliminate drug production at its source. The Afghan income from foreign sources is almost exclusively from poppy related products, in the form of heroin. As poor as these people are, they will be worse off without that income, and they know it is our objective to kill it. They can count on the foreign income from the presence of the US military in the short term, but know but that it is of limited duration. The market for poppy related products will continue indefinitely.