Quote Originally Posted by beltman713
Yeah, when you first posted this story my first thought was, "I thought the Taliban eradicated the opium crop in Afghanistan?" "If the Taliban were essentially on the run, how could they grow record opium crops?"
this was exactly my thought by reading the story....and the average opium farmer, that had been lucrative for so many years, and then more or less put out of business, through the changes in taliban politics, was glad as they were out of the way, and the americans had things in control, the crops flurished again...