But now what?
The media are warning us??

"the alliance pays for rocket launchers, helicopters and ammunition with precious stones and, occasionally, opium and heroin."

So, what will the outcome be?
More cheap drugs on our streets?
More of our men coming home hooked on heroin (like after Vietnam?)
Who benefits??

The same old guys who ALWAYS have.....the drug and gun runners.

It's a dog and pony show.

"The U.S. State Department and the United Nation's top anti-narcotics official have said that drug traffickers operate freely in areas controlled by the alliance."

People within our State Department are largely responsible for the international drug trade, both promoting and protecting it. This is well known since the Vietnam war when Armitage was protecting all the heroin coming out of southeast Asia (The Golden Triangle).
They just moved their refining operations to Afganistan and paid and armed the Pakistani military to protect it's trade routes.
All in the name of fighting this country or that.
However, it IS necessary, although unfortunate.
Hypocrisy is the fact that they control the drugs and they control you if you do them. (Or don't)
Man, in his desire for territory and wealth,
is capable of anything.