Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy is a dead end,political trap-opium rules

Obama at G-20

Barack Obama faces a no win situation in Afghanistan, faced with several different options.........whether to send in more troops.......troops are going to have no effect on the opium trade in Afghanistan.........which supplies 93% of the worlds illicit opium and profits have set records since the U.S. invaded....This amounts to an export value of about $4 billion, with a quarter being earned by opium farmers and the rest going to district officials, insurgents, warlords and drug traffickers.

Barack has stopped eradication efforts since taking office, the Bush government supported eradication.

Opium production in Afghanistan has been on the rise since the downfall of the Taliban in 2001. Based on UNODC data, there has been more opium poppy cultivation in each of the past four growing seasons (2004-2007), than in any one year during Taliban rule.

Russia recently urged aerial spraying of the poppy fields in Afghanistan, claiming all poppy fields could be destroyed in a year, given the current situation.....not a bad idea, the problem is that if the U.S. starts destroying the main form of income for a whole country it would spark terrorism around the world, a Russian diplomat says Washington fears a backlash from powerful drug barons allegedly living in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile Republicans led by John McCain are beating the drum insisting that President Barack Obama must act now...send in more troops that are being requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan. 

The good thing is Barack Obama has stated he is definitely not pulling troops out of Afghanistan, which would create a power vacuum and destabilize the region.

Whatever the decision Barack Obama will need the full support of the International community to contain the Afghanistan problem, it is like a virus  that can not be destroyed only contained, keeping as much money as possible out of Taliban and other extremists hands.

Afghanistan is like a crack house the size of Texas .........The cost of overseas conflicts, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan, $144 billion in fiscal year 2009, $130 billion in 2010, and — in what the administration concedes are “placeholder estimates” — of $50 billion for 2011 and beyond when the United States pulls out of Iraq.

It costs the United States $390,000 a year to sustain each American trooper overseas. The Obama budget plan calls for decreasing expenditures on overseas conflicts to help balance the budget.

Best article I have ever read on Afghan War the whole story from Geopolitical monitor!

Is Osama Bin Laden dead?, that dude died years ago, he needs dialysis every 3 days for his kidney problem,,,,,,,try finding electricity in the middle of no where........but the CIA and British intelligence do not want you to know that.