Pubdate: Tue, 24 Jun 2014
Source: Progress-Index, The (VA)
Copyright: The Progress-Index 2014
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Author: Kay Hoskin
Page: A4

WHY IS HEROIN STILL FLOWING OUT OF AFGHANISTAN?

To the Editor:

Heroin has made a comeback - oddly enough that has happened since we 
have been in Afghanistan. Why?

Is our law enforcement that ineffective? Are our legislators paying 
more attention to re-elections, pay raises and lobbyists? Is there no 
enforceable plan to stop the terrible destruction caused by the use 
of this drug? Where is the "War on Drugs"? Do more "people of power" 
need to lose loved ones to this?

Where does heroin come from? How is it that the media never tells us 
that 90 percent or more of the heroin found on our streets and in the 
arms of our dead young people comes from Afghanistan! The very place 
where our soldiers are dying to keep Afghanis free! No wonder the 
tribal leaders of

Afghanistan want us to stay there and die their while they continue 
to profit from the "export" of this deadly drug.

To believe the federal government doesn't know about heroin coming 
from Afghanistan is ludicrous. They've had boots on the ground and 
eyes in the sky for over ten years. This tells me that the American 
people - soldiers and civilians  are collateral damage - again - to a 
foreign policy gone astray.

Kay Hoskin Bellevue. Pa.
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