US Tries to Spread Opium War to Pakistan
US Attempts to Expand Afghanistan War Into Pakistan
by Salvador Astucia, May 12, 2002
"Follow the opium!" That should be America's new motto. If you want to predict where the United States will wage war, just follow the opium. It was true for Western-sponsored wars with China, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan. It never ceases to amaze me how predictable US military strategists can be in their attempts to wage war in the name of bogus causes such as fighting Communism or terrorism. In fact, the latter cause has been drawn into question by recent articles about NORAD's apparently intentional efforts NOT to protect the airspace over New York City and Washington, DC during the 911 attacks.
Today the Washington Post ran a front-page article, US Urges Pakistan Toward New Attacks, which states that the United States is trying to expand the war in Afghanistan into Pakistan. The following text is the lead-off of the article:
| U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the
major remaining concentrations of al Qaeda fighters are in western Pakistan,
rather than in Afghanistan, but Pakistan has resisted U.S. pressure to
launch large-scale attacks against them, officials in Washington and
Pakistan said. U.S. officials have pressed Pakistan to act against what they believe are groups of al Qaeda fighters concentrated in the Waziristan area of western Pakistan, near the Afghan border. ... |
(Thomas E. Ricks and Kamran Khan, Washington Post, May 12, 2002)
This latest effort to wage war supports one of the main themes of my book, Opium Lords: Israel, the Golden Triangle, and the Kennedy Assassination, that opium smuggling plays an important role in US foreign policy. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Pakistan and Afghanistan are two of the leading growers of opium in the world today. Here is an excerpt:
| Though opium smoking has declined, opium remains the starting product for heroin, which has millions of addicts worldwide. The cultivation of opium, which was formerly centred in India, Turkey, and China and was sometimes carried on legally, shifted to other countries and became wholly illicit in the second half of the 20th century. By the century's end, the nations of Myanmar (Burma), Afghanistan, Laos, Iran, and Pakistan had become the leading producers and exporters of opium. |
(Encyclopedia Britannica: Opium)
In Opium Lords, I asserted that opium was the glue that held together the forces who assassinated JFK in 1963, that Nixon's effort to stop international drug smuggling was one of the reasons he was removed from office in 1974, and that opium is presently being used to hold together the US-Israeli cartel that killed thousands of Americans on September 11, 2001. The US military was apparently promised illicit opium money from the subsequent war in Afghanistan if it promised to participate in the 911 attacks. I further asserted, in Opium Lords, that opium smuggling has been exploited by Israel for political reasons, even though the Western powers have been in the drug smuggling business for nearly two centuries—since the Opium Wars with China.
Israel's recent signals that it wants peace with the Palestinians appear to be undercut by this latest effort to expand the opium war into Pakistan. It is further evidence that the US military is being manipulated and, to an extent, managed by Israel. This is yet another reason why America should break all ties with that nation. ♠