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An Afghan farmer harvests opium sap from a poppy field in the Chaparhar district of Nangarhar province on April 19, 2016.
The two decades of U.S. presence in Afghanistan is two decades of death and displacement of innocent Afghan civilians and two decades of unchecked local drug proliferation. With its irresponsible and hasty withdrawal, the U.S. has left behind a series of grim challenges to the innocent Afghan people, including the drug issue. The U.S.
Contrary to Zhao’s ravings, SIGAR reported the U.S. spent over $8.6 billion between 2002 and 2017 attempting to eliminate the Afghan drug trade — sadly, without any “lasting impact.” Counter-narcotics was considered a “priority” under the Bush administration but was de-emphasized by both American and Afghan officials after 2008 as attention was focused on fighting the Taliban insurgency.