Dear editor.

Due to recent events in Afghanistan, I started wondering as to what is the reason of us, as Australians to be there?
Spreading of democracy?
Why don't start here, at home, or somewhere where we don't have to send our soldiers to kill people for whatever political justification?
What's in Afghanistan worth killing people for?
HEROIN !
I punched into Internet searcher, UNITED NATIONS , then AFGHANISTAN, HEROIN PRODUCTION, and there it is!
Before the US led invasion the Taliban declared that heroin production is against the “ will of god” and started to destroy poppy fields to the extent that according to UN figures they (the Taliban)
eliminated some 90% of them in areas under their control.
They had no control over the northern part , where the well equipped drug lords were far superior to Taliban .
Imagine my surprise as how come the US appointed the “northern alliance” as the new “democratic” Gov. of Afghanistan
I was even more surprised to find out the since the occupation, the heroin production has more than doubled, to the point that now it stands at some 7 thousand (yes seven thousand) tons per year,which represent some 90% of the total world production.
Ninety percent of the heroin on our streets comes from Afghanistan.
To grow enough poppies to produce that amount, you need some 500 000 hectares of land.
You could see those bright purple flowers from the moon if you look the right direction, so how come that all the US spy satellites and drone planes cant find them?
Furthermore I discover that during the whole of the “war” not a single missile hit the heroin labs, where the heroin is being refined.
These labs need vast amounts of “catalyst” which is being shipped in by tanker after tanker from abroad.
There's no dual purpose for this chemical, so how come the US military is allowing the importation of it?
Not even a mouse gets in or out of Afghanistan without someone from US military let it, so how come some 300 truckloads of heroin a year is getting out.
Another puzzling question is, who is getting all the money?
One doesn't have to be a accountant to work out that all this heroin would be worth billions of dollars.
All this information being so easily available, how come our leaders are ignorant about it?
How come that we as a nation don't have a massive debate about our involvement in this scam.


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