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The war in Afghanistan is not “lost.” On the contrary, it is going well, although there have been problems of late, with more and more Afghans shooting their NATO partners. The purpose is not to “win,” but to maintain the production of opium and heroin. 

Afghanistan is a patchwork of poppy farms. NATO governments distribute the heroin worldwide for profit, and to help maintain the lucrative “war on drugs.” There is no “Taliban” as a united resistance. Instead, there is a mafia scene with rival gangs killing each other, and NATO troops working to keep the heroin production going.

Some right-wing commentators have openly admitted this (e.g. Geraldo Rivera of Fox News), saying the USA must let Afghan drug lords continue to produce mountains of heroin, or else the drug lords will become so poor that they will join the “Taliban” (which no longer exists).

Western governments always maintain vast production zones for illegal drugs. During the 1950s 60s and 70s, the heroin production zone was the “Golden Triangle” consisting of Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. The “war on communism” provided a cover for this drug production. Today it is the “war on terror,” while the heroin production zone has moved from the Golden Triangle to the Golden Crescent, a zone that stretches across Afghanistan, and includes parts of Iran and Pakistan.

Iran’s government knows all this, and knows that the heroin production is part of the imperialist program. Hence Iran’s government constantly stamps out heroin production in Iran, and usually imposes the death penalty for serious drug-related charges. Naturally this enrages the NATO governments, who want to produce as much heroin as possible (as long as they control the production, and collect the profits).    

To maintain the heroin production, NATO troops have been in Afghanistan for 11 years, and will continue to stay there for another decade at least. The troops do not know why they are there. They spend most of their time in military bases, lying around all day and eating (most are overweight). Their function is simply to be present, in order to keep the rival drug lords separated, so that the heroin production may continue in an orderly fashion.

Meanwhile, special U.S. operatives select targets for drone strikes based on drug-related issues.  The drone strikes have nothing to do with “insurgents” or the “Taliban,” or the “war on terror.” Instead, one drug lord (or poppy farmer) has infringed on the “turf” of another, or has displeased the US occupiers in some way. Perhaps he stole a shipment of heroin. Perhaps he insulted a rival drug producer, who wants his head. Perhaps he threatened to expose the entire drug scam to the world media (as though the media would actually print it). Perhaps he is tired of giving 99 % of his profits to the big drug lords and to the NATO governments, and he wants to go private, setting up his own heroin deals.

Whatever. The reasons for U.S. drone strikes are many, but they are always drug-related. Anyone who threatens to disrupt the heroin production in any way (however trivial) is eliminated, along with his entire family and sometimes his entire village. Such mass carnage is done to “send a message” to anyone else who might disrupt the heroin production, or disrupt the profits from it.

The corporate media then refers to all the dead as “insurgents,” or the “Taliban,” even when they are innocent young girls.

The “drone pilots” back in the USA know nothing of this. (They’re morons anyway.) They simply fire at whoever or whatever the U.S. ground operatives have marked for death. Besides, they regard all human figures on the ground (including children) as “terrorists.”

Sometimes the USA decides not to kill a drug lord or poppy farmer, but to simply eradicate his production facilities, so that some other drug lord or poppy farmer may increase his profits. In that case, NATO troops are sent out from their bases to destroy the victim’s poppy plants and warehouses. The regular NATO troops have no idea why they are ordered to destroy one poppy field, while they are ordered to protect another. They are in Afghanistan because there are no jobs back home.

If the NATO powers want someone killed, and do not need to use a drone strike to "send a message," then assassinations are done by special death squads comprised of US Special Forces personnel, plus Afghan assistants. If a US drone kills the family of one of the Afghan killers, and wipes out his village, then the Afghan shoots the U.S. personnel in his death squad team. This is quite routine, and is becoming more frequent all the time.