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Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along
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We also didn't threaten to kill the farmers for growing it. No shit the Taliban was successful. Comply or die. They're the ones who were profiting from it anyway. Now that they're in charge again, religion trumps financial needs.