[TKDietz]

“Sad but true. If we were allowed to aggressively use herbicides to eradicate the illicit opium trade, we would succeed. It would defund the Taliban.”

If we really wanted to do that we could have done it a long time ago.

[Sola Veritas]

“If we really wanted to do that we could have done it a long time ago.”

I work for DoD and I have spoken with too many just returned troops (lower ranks of captain and below). What I have described is the situation as they have observed it on the ground. We are not allowed, by the Afgan government, to do poppy eradication.