The best example of such an influence on the CIA drug dealers today is probably in Afghanistan, or the brother of President Karzai, Ahmed Wali Karzai (an active collaborator of the CIA), and Abdul Rashid Dostum (a former employee of the Agency) are among those accused of drug trafficking. The drug-related corruption within the Afghan government must be attributed in part to the decision of the United States and the CIA to launch in 2001, an invasion with the support of the Northern Alliance, a move that Washington knew it was corrupted by the drug..

In this way, the United States consciously recreates the situation in Afghanistan that they had created earlier in Vietnam. Also in Vietnam (as Ahmed Wali Karzai half a century after), the president’s brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, was using drugs to finance a private network allowing it to rig elections in favor of Ngo Dinh Diem. Thomas H. Johnson, coordinator of studies of anthropological research at the Naval Postgraduate School, pointed out the improbability of success of a program against insurgency when this program supports a local government that is blatantly the subject of corruption and dysfunction.

So I object to McCoy when it has the image of the US mass media, portrayed the Afghan drug economy as being dominated by the Taliban. (In the words of McCoy: If the insurgents took control of the illegal economy, as did the Taliban, then the task becomes almost insurmountable.) From the Taliban on the march of Afghan opium is estimated at general between 90 and 400 million dollars. But the United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that total revenues from trade in opium and heroin is around 2.8 to $ 3.4 billion.


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