The unprecedented U.S.-led air campaign against the Taliban’s economic engine, opium and heroin, has destroyed 73 drug labs and deprived the narco-jihadist group of $42 million in proceeds since President Donald Trump authorized the operations in November.
“It’s the first time we’ve used air power to … strike and put pressure on Taliban revenue in the 17 years of the war,” U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Lance Bunch, the chief of air operations targeting insurgent revenues, told USA Today, referring to the authority granted by President Trump last year.
“The new authority allowed us to strike in areas where previously the Taliban felt like they were completely safe,” added the general.
Following a dramatic drop in counter-narcotics activity authorized by former President Barack Obama, the cultivation area and overall production of opium skyrocketed.
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At a cost of how many hundreds of millions of our tax dollars?
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12:51 In all seriousness probably less than the Presidential golf trips so far
ReplyDeleteMust be talking about Obama's Golf Outings. President Trump is visiting his own Golf Courses, so he gets the hometown discount and most of the time probably for Free. He has not come nowhere close to the amount of money Expenses Accumulated by Mighty Barack, thats for sure!
Delete12:51 PM - It would make $42 million look like peanuts.
ReplyDeleteLucky this was done now, if under Obama with Kerry or Clinton as Sec. of State they would have pushed for reimbursement to them.
ReplyDeleteEliminating the competition.
ReplyDeleteMilitary is guarding the poppy fields!
Wake up folks.
This country is awash in heroin and it ramped up after the invasion of Afghanistan.
OMG
ReplyDeleteI bet The Clintons are angry now
how will they make their homes and boat payments now?