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Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along
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During the time of the US occupation of Afghanistan, opium from the region comprised a full 90% of the world's heroin supply. So I would say "the same thing they've been doing since at least the days of the Vietnam War and the Golden Triangle."