I am reading this newly released explosive book titled The Fort Bragg Drug Cartel by Seth Harp. I have to say it was very hard to find. I had to drive over 90 miles to another city where a small town bookstore had just one copy. It was quite revealing that Houston, being a large city with countless bookstores, did not have a single copy for me to buy. Also, Amazon has been delivering fake copies of it. I am not surprised by any of this because this is no accident.

Anyway, the book has many mindboggling stories about how, for decades, the Americans were told to believe that the poppy cultivation and heroine production in Afghanistan was the work of the Taliban and that Americans were there to fight against it in order to choke this revenue stream of the Taliban. The truth, however, is the opposite of this. When the Taliban came into power in mid 90s, they burnt up almost all of the poppy fields because they argued that their religion........

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