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How long can US finance war in Afghanistan?
Published: 17 November, 2009, 02:24
Edited: 19 November, 2009, 09:30
TAGS: Conflict, Military, Interview, Politics, Central Asia, USA
The US administration has made estimates of the future financial cost of war with the Taliban. What will the expense of the counterterrorism operations be to US taxpayers?
And what are the major concerns over politically volatile spending?
With the spiraling economy and the new numbers of the cost of the war many Americans are wondering how long the US can continue funding this war.
“In the south, where I was two years ago, it’s the same situation: a lot of active combats, big formations of Taliban, not a lot of development going on,” Axe noted.
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Americans will stay there as long as they will have under control lucrative narcotic trade which is bringing estimated $50 mld to US. Drugs are not used to finance the war but to destabilize whole surrounding area and neighboring countries. The cultivation levels under US-NATO exceed 160,000 acres of opium poppy reached in 2000 during the Taliban regime, which was aggressively promoting the crop at the time to finance military operations. Afghanistan is already the world's leading supplier of opium, which can be processed into a variety of narcotics, including heroin. Most of Afghanistan's heroin is exported to Europe and surrounding countries, with less than 10 percent reaching the United States and 30% reaching Russia.
It is financed by the two types of dope: Afghan opium and Chinese cash.