John Kiriakou

So he calls me back a couple of days later and he says, buddy, you know you're not going to get this paper published, right?

I said, why not?

He said, Afghanistan produces 93% of the world's heroin.

Almost all of that heroin goes to Iran and Russia.

And we want them to be addicted to heroin.

It weakens their societies.

And I never got it published.

Well, fast forward years later.

That's disgusting.

We've got a fentanyl epidemic in this country.

That fentanyl is coming from China and Mexico.

They want us to be addicted to fentanyl because it weakens our society.

And that's why we're in the predicament that we're in.

I do.

And the reason I have come to that conclusion is not because I'm any smarter than anybody else, but do you know how much of the world's heroin was produced in Afghanistan in the last year of Taliban rule, 2000?

Not too much.

Zero.

None.

They didn't grow any, not only did they not grow any heroin poppy in 2000, they were a net food exporter to Iran and to Pakistan.

And as soon as we took over, it was all about the heroin.