>About 90 % of the worlds Opium comes from Afghanistan. I cannot understand why we are attempting to support a country and its crop of Opium. Why not drop Agent Orange on the poppy fields? We did it in Vietnam. Then we will be hated by everyone in Afghanistan as well as the heroin addicts around the world.

Nobody is forcing The West buy heroin. It is our fault there is a market.

>Afghanistan is hopeless or did we not remember the results that the Soviet Union enjoyed in that country?

The NATO operation probably has been the most successful invasion of Afghanistan since Genghis Khan. The Soviets had to content with the CIA, Pakistan and funding from Saudi Arabia. At least in this conflict