[lbo-talk] Helmand Export business

[James Heartfield]

ITN news reports tonight that two thirds of all heroin in Britain is imported from Helmand Province, Afghanistan: which just happens to be that part of Central Asia currently patrolled by British troops. Is this a coincidence? Are they perhaps there as a security force to keep the supply lines open? Come to think of it, thousands of underpaid overworked troops in miserable conditions. Maybe they are the supply line.