Ian Burton

“Karzai’s government was primarily a military-industrial money-laundering machine for transatlantic security elites, a corrupt conduit through which a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars flowed, but secondarily and almost as important, it was a massive drug cartel that produced nearly all of the world’s illicit opiates.”
― Seth Harp, The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces