Russia blames US for flood of Afghan heroin into country

The Taliban nearly halted heroin production in Afghanistan when they controlled the country. I'm just sayin'...

same situation as in bolivia. what else are those farmers going to grow? and if they aren't going to farm what else are they going to do with their lives.

"But in the period after they came, there was a big increase in the region . . . ," Roizman added. "It makes me think the Americans have done nothing to stop the drug trafficking."

BFD...hey, I've got an idea...solve your OWN damn problems....I'm so sick of everyone expecting America to wipe their ass.

Production probably went up proportionately to the number of people wanting to slam heroin to forget about the dissatisfactory way in which the world has been run the past few years...

Mr Roizman was once himself involved with organized crime and now gets to blow this whistle? My entire life savings says this man is a kingpin for heroin in his mother Russia.

uh oh!
u.s is getting called out on the fact that we took over the poppy feilds were a big precent of the worlds most addictive drugs are made, yet we havent destroyed it, in fact weve been sitting on it like theres profit to be made!

hmmmmm, hows that for a war on drugs?!

Something tells me that Mother Russia is still a bit salty about getting their asses handed to them by the Afghans back in the 80's.

If there's one thing we are experts at here in the US, it is going to war for profit. Maybe now we can pay off our massive debt to China, lol.

I find it odd the writer uses the term federal to describe the soviet government.

Because we are there protecting the farmers to produce more dope for the bankers profit and to help keep the population dumbed down -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbgjvC1OT8g

Maybe Russia should stop focusing on WHERE the heroin is coming from and start thinking about WHY their population is deciding slamming heroin is a good idea. Maybe things need to change in RUSSIA.

cant say its not true.

Of course if all else fails blame the US. Why can't people just take responsibility for their own stupidity?

The Russians did so well in Afghanistan when they were there right? The mujahadin ate their lunch. Now it's our fault.

why doesn't anyone smoke opium anymore? it is a hell of a lot safer than shooting up heroin.

The only reason there is a war on drugs is because the U.S. Government hates competition.

Taxes.

There's no common sense debate here. Everybody knows that this story is true and the Russians are right.

The only substances which should be illegal, and hence of hyper inflated profit margin, should be fissionable materials,coal-petro geoturds, bio toxins, and slave bodies. And we should slowly and painfully,....and with utmost certainty, remove pimps of these "wealth-makes-wastes" from the planets surface. When poppies cost the same as cabbage---NO PROBLEM.
(and at least we won't have to take any hypocritical bs from the plutocrat/mobsters that pretend to be "Russia"in 2009. We don't need these toxic products and processes to survive,...AND WE SURE AS HELL DON'T NEED THEM.

It's sad. There should have been no invasion in the first place, now the US led coalition is learning the same lesson as the Russians: Afghanistan is easy to win and impossible to hold. The responsible thing to do would be to stop the farmers producing this stuff so they can't fund the Taliban insurgency anymore- but stop them by giving them something worthwhile to replace that massive income source with.

the afghan war, among other things, broke the soviet unions back. we helped covertly, with stinger missiles to destroy their great war ships. the trade in herion weakens russia just as our stingers did. there is a small threat that the communists could regain control of russia and to counteract that possibility america has many programs.
america wants to look like the good guy. thats why we fight wars and protest them at the same time, its about corporate image. herion is one of the things eroding the russian economy and keeping them dependant on the american dollar.

I agree , piratesauce , All wars (drugs , terror , ect..) are wars against people for profit . It is a good thing for those profiteers that people do not realize this . We WAY outnumber them ...