Stalin
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It is not just south of the border where the US military dictatorship is up to it's armpits in drug trafficking
In this book, which is not about Latin America, it’s about Afghanistan, he really digs into, he expresses the similar sense of awe that he felt upon discovering that everything that we had ever said, that we had ever heard about the Taliban trafficking heroin was the opposite of reality.
The Taliban, that was the source of almost all of their popular support, was that they had clamped down on that industry because it was not popular for the reasons that there are destructive industries and addictive narcotics are probably the most destructive and they’re not popular with anyone.
But the Taliban had successfully sort of eradicated that industry in Afghanistan, then we come in, we overthrow the Taliban, and what do you know, the poppies are back like never before.
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The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces is a non-fiction book by investigative journalist Seth Harp, first published by Viking in August 2025. The book investigates murder and drug trafficking committed on and around Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army installation in Fayetteville, North Carolina that is home to a large number of special operations forces, including the elite Delta Force
avid Wallace-Wells, also writing for The New York Times, said that the book was "the most gripping, memorable, eye-opening book I've read in months," and that it "upends a set of broadly held assumptions about the recent history of the U.S. military."
In The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jeff Calder described the book as an "explosive investigation into drug dealing, murder, and suicide within America's special operations forces groups, notably superelite Delta Force," and wrote that it was "a book to be taken seriously by the country's political class and military establishment."
comrade stlain
moscow
In this book, which is not about Latin America, it’s about Afghanistan, he really digs into, he expresses the similar sense of awe that he felt upon discovering that everything that we had ever said, that we had ever heard about the Taliban trafficking heroin was the opposite of reality.
The Taliban, that was the source of almost all of their popular support, was that they had clamped down on that industry because it was not popular for the reasons that there are destructive industries and addictive narcotics are probably the most destructive and they’re not popular with anyone.
But the Taliban had successfully sort of eradicated that industry in Afghanistan, then we come in, we overthrow the Taliban, and what do you know, the poppies are back like never before.
...
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces is a non-fiction book by investigative journalist Seth Harp, first published by Viking in August 2025. The book investigates murder and drug trafficking committed on and around Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army installation in Fayetteville, North Carolina that is home to a large number of special operations forces, including the elite Delta Force
avid Wallace-Wells, also writing for The New York Times, said that the book was "the most gripping, memorable, eye-opening book I've read in months," and that it "upends a set of broadly held assumptions about the recent history of the U.S. military."
In The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jeff Calder described the book as an "explosive investigation into drug dealing, murder, and suicide within America's special operations forces groups, notably superelite Delta Force," and wrote that it was "a book to be taken seriously by the country's political class and military establishment."
comrade stlain
moscow
