From Strategic Culture
''The 2001 NATO invasion of Afghanistan – with the stated goal of hunting
down terrorists - provides a stark example of an operation designed to
establish a situation conductive to the expansion of the drug business
in a whole country. Its actual result was a boost of drug output – of
heroin and opium – in the settings of the international occupation. The
Talibs who ruled Afghanistan prior to the coalition offensive managed to
induce a considerable reduction of poppy farming, whereas the
intervention led to an increase of drug production in Afghanistan by
orders of magnitude and to the conversion of the country into the
world's top narcotics supplier… Analysts, in fact, suggested that the
September 11 terrorist attacks could have been arranged to help the drug
business spread globally under the protection of the Western military
coalition. ''
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