Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chief’s Chairman Mark Milley held a Pentagon press briefing today about the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. [Full Presser Here] As the Taliban has taken full control over the country and capital, the U.S. presence in Kabul has been reduced to securing the airport as a temporary fortress, and telling U.S. citizens to try and get there.
When asked about the Taliban surrounding the airport, constructing checkpoints and the inability of Americans to reach safety for evacuation, Defense Secretary Austin said the military “don’t have the capability to…extend operations.” The follow-up question was then about the U.S. essentially having to negotiate safe-passage with the Taliban… and rather than say, “Yes, that is accurate“, the question left Secretary Austin speechless. WATCH:
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Ooof… THAT, my friends, is exactly what FUBAR looks like!
He can’t threaten the Taliban but he can threaten service members who don’t vaccinate. Disgusting…**spit**
I have a Critical Race Theory and trust me, the situation is Critical!
the “critical race” in this unfolding tragedy is the race to the damn airport
He should “deconflict”
@RespectIsVital
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Things are so bad between US and UK forces at Kabul Airport, #Afghanistan, 2 Para have been tasked to observe US forces in case they leave at short notice.
2 Para OC had a screaming match with 82nd Airbourne CO.
Paras VERY unhappy at treatment of Afghans by US forces.
Meanwhile, 2 Para are running constant patrols into Kabul to collect British, Irish and Afghan Nationals due for evacuation.
Any other nationality also picked up if at location. Taliban are aware of patrols and taking no action.
UK forces very much running own operation
Friction at airport between US & UK forces Commanders.
US forces won’t leave airport due to Taliban deal.
2 Para still running patrols into Kabul to collect people from safe houses.
US unhappy with Paras saying it puts their deal at risk.
The British are in the enviable position of being financially worthless as hostages. However there is allot of propaganda worth to magnanimously allowing this very small Battalion of lightly armed and unsupported Paratroopers to operate in evacuating people.
So, do not be so hard on the US Troops, on the ground. That 82nd Airborne Commander is stuck in the middle between the US Government, who purposely sold them out and the Taliban calculating the ransom for US Citizens and token Afghans.
How about we trade them Loyd Austin and “General-Disaster” Milley, for all the US Citizens?
win-win
I second that motion!
Don’t forget the Dementia Patient as part of the bargain!
I would be prepared to up that offer…ALL the cabinet, 500 of Congress, 7 of SCOTUS, and the entire senior management of our bureaucracy…that should be about the same numbers and immensely improve AMERICA…I think it can be shown all those mentioned can claim at least a portion of the blame for this administration
Then time to disobey orders and do the right thing and to hell with your star.
did I not read that they told people to hide, to stay in place? Now they’re saying if you didn’t get to the airport, you’re out of luck?
Exactly. They meant to leave them from the get go.
pallets of cash for hostages?
I am glad the British are going out and getting their people and taking other nationalities out as well. Someone needs to do it. The Democrats always accused President Trump of undermining NATO with his demands that they live up to their obligations. Biden has done more harm to NATO with his actions in Afghanistan than the Democrats could ever dream of accusing Trump of doing.
Biden and his gang that can’t shoot straight are an incompetent disaster. The whole lot of them need to resign in disgrace.
They played Austin like stradivarius violin. The idiot did not realize until that moment he was a patsy.
Yes FUBAR or my favorite saying was
Ate up like a soup sandwich.
What a dumb*ss
We used to say “chewed up like a soup sandwich”. Either way, it accurately describes our civilian and military leadership right now.
I like it!
Or we would just shorten it to, “you chewed, soldier”. Good times!
Right now though, I wouldn’t advise anybody to join the Army. American soldiers will be hated even by our allies now. That is, if America even has any allies left.
This is what affirmative action, diversity, quota hires & promoted look like … stammering, stuttering, “stuck-on-stupid” window dressing … nothing more.
RATS are status quo rodents who exist to destroy … they are incapable of fixing ANYTHING … and as exampled by his miserable response … incapable of even explaining the “plan”.
And … they are in charge from top to bottom.
De Rigueur in the Jo Sh__ Admin.
“They”… The media?
WikiLeaks on Twitter: “Julian Assange in 2011: “The goal is to use Afghanistan to
wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into
the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war”
A GIANT KICKBACK BUNCO SCHEME WITH A MILITARY FACE. NO WONDER THE AFGHAN ARMY WAS STARVED OF REAL ARMAMENTS. OUR DEEP STATE WAS LOOTING THE RESOURCES.
No Wonder Granny Rodham wants to Seth Rich him like Epstein.
Everywhere these elites go they steal the host countries resources and make it look legitimate.
Haiti has been raped for decades and has been used to wash stolen gold from around the world.
So? The Haitian people have made a Sh__Hole out of their country from the beginning because they have chosen to elevate the biggest PsOS in their self constructed POS society.
They were a “The Chicago Way” Style Society since Chicago was an Army Fort.
If there is one people and society that deserves as much contempt for lying in the filth they created themselves as the Mohammadans, it’s the Haitians.
Goes hand in hand with the senators mentioned by Trump in his Hannity address
This was clear by 2003 for me. It made no sense why we didn’t bomb them into oblivion and leave.
I watched the 2012 Vice documentary This is What Winning Looks Like and then understood what was going on in Afghanistan was a TV show for us here at home and a pedophiles’ warlord show that our soldiers had to endure. Lots of money.
@MacaesBruno
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So far the US’s moral debacle is most visible in … Britain
What does it say about us as a country… if we are entirely dependent on a unilateral decision taken by the United States?”
Former PM Theresa May criticises “major setback for British foreign policy… where is global Britain on the streets of Kabul?”
Please resign……
You’re too kind using please.
Milley’s day will come
~some day.
Absolutely ASTONISHNG incompetency. Pretty close to be in line with what I thought!!!
The military version of, “Go Woke, go broke” … so, instead of a fighting force, SecDef heads a fighting farce.
Yes, Leon. “go Woke, go Broke” but sadly the cost or expense this time is in human lives. Americans and good guy Afghanis will pay the price. These leaders need to be court-martialed and then expedited punishment.
Long fall on a short rope.
plus compensate those at the military academies subjugated to BS by the higher-ups re SARS Coronavirus shots
PAY
Most of us here at CTH are fully aware that the U.S.A. and much of the Western world was at a precipice after the Nov 3 fraud.
I for one could not see the colossal failure that has a occurred in a few short months.
The U.S.A. the worlds only super power,?? now utterly humiliated before all the world, to a rag tag group of terror many of whom had been previously captured,and now Americans the world over IMO are in grave peril.
I just watched Biden mumble on about Covid. That can’t be real!!!
God bless PDJT and Cheers to all.
Not a fraud but design.
The idea you had a voice and could participate in representative government is the fraud.
Sad. I choke with rage. Liberals have the intelligence of a fence post. They are obedient stupid cowards. Most loathsome.
DD
My question has always been, “Why choke yourself with rage when you can choke the bastid who deliberately and unjustly enraged you?”
We excel at not making the guilty pay.
Chewing our rage as our cud is…many things, none of them Justice.
I’m stealing that last line ?
Dead Center Bullseye, Deke! Fire for effect.
Silver lining:
If the Taliban can defeat the US military and take control after being demolished over and over for two decades and a generation by holding up in the hinterlands and training while getting back door support from self interested foreign actors who see empowering them as in their interest…, well, then….hmmmmm
Any way, interesting to note it can surely be done. Didn’t even need f-15s or nukes!
Strategist!
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I seem to recall from some of your past posts that you are Canadian. If so, congrats on Canada’s timely exit not long ago.
A Canadian friend from my past lost her son in an IED attack over there, leaving behind his wife and a young baby.
I gotta be honest here: I absolutely saw it coming, and coming quickly. And in our upside-down world, “The worst is yet to come.”
We are not utterly humiliated before the whole world. The junta may be but
America’s last chapter, unlike Canada’s , is yet to be written. I still believe in the American can do spirit.
Please don’t lump us in with the feckless Canadians who threw away their freedom long ago.
I know a little about Canadian history as some of my ancestors fought at the battle of Abraham Martins farm. On the French side. I also have two ancestors that help guide Lewis and Clark on their little jaunt. I know the history of British arrogance very well.
The brits terminally screwed up the Middle East with their dreams of a world wide empire. Their blunders and dreams of glory are still reverberating to this day. Maybe the self righteous subjects of the crown need to read up on some of their history and refrain from crapping on Americans.
@MacaesBruno
We are this close to a Biden speech saying if these 10,000 Americans cannot fight to get to the airport, the US cannot fight for them
This fits the installed idiot and his idiotic cabinet:
And don’t get me started on General Milley, that piece of you-know-what. He had zero problem undermining President Trump and should have been court-martialed for his insubordination. He thought he was in clover when the Dems came into office. So how you like it now, Milley??? He could stab our president in the back but cowers under his desk at the Pentagon when it comes to real terrorists. Ugh, spit.
Is he the one who lied to President Trump about Syria?
Very well said Sir. I concur. Spit!
My thoughts exactly. He should have been court-martialed a year ago. Stripped of rank & imprisoned or hung.
so Mr Square Pants Bob, tell them you can’t, won’t do anything, that will make them back down and corporate. What a F*king clown you just pulled your pants down in front of the world.
Am I watching Monty Python?
S of D Lloyd “FUBAR” Austin is the name. Affirmative Action is the game.
My God the Taliban could turn it into the Alamo at any moment with mortars and RPGs.
Camels and Muskets could be our undoing here.
Correct.
A lefty reaction to the lefties eating their own…if it wasn’t for the situation, it would be priceless…
God is shaping the field, have mercy on us law abiding citizens
He looks and sounds clueless. Duh..
Yep, this is America the global super power.
This is the Obama canal finally fully exposed
Secretary, um General, ah Sir? If we dont have the miltary capability to secure an airport how can we possibly conduct a multi theater war..Sir? Yes Sir Im standing at attention Sir. No Sir Im not one of those Deplorable types. Yes Sir I have Mao’s little book and studying it as ordered Sir. Sir can you answer my initial question? Sir?…. Sir?
“General Disaster” Milley’s preferred pronoun is ‘sir’.
This “General” is a woke piece of human garbage. We paid for this guy’s commission.
Funny how CRT ain’t helping the trapped Americans THAT HE AND JCS CHAIR MILLEY ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ABANDONING TO THEIR FATE.
HUMAN DEBRIS, BOTH OF THEM.
A board of inquiry and court martial are in order for Milley, and any other General Officer who signed off on this force and Sector security lapse.
Total American human failures and wastes of oxygen doesn’t begin to cover these two.
Can you imagine what Chesty Puller thinks of these moronic embarrassments?
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Austin and Milley will forever be associated with dereliction of duty and cavalier incompetence.
Well ,you can’t expect them to just pull troops away from what they said was our first priority,which was climate change,and I think number two, was white supremacist or something equally woke.
Rant over …
As I mentioned a few days ago, I live close to a Northeastern military installation which is home to a number of units whose operational mission directly involves the Middle East theater, and specifically with large air transportation operations.
If there was an increase in air activity, I would hear and see it. The approaches are approximately 1000 feet over my head.
I have heard one, exactly one, large military aircraft in the last 96 hours.
The cavalry is not on its way to Kabul, at least not from here. I doubt it is on its way from Dover or anywhere else.
Judging by the lack of activity, the Americans trapped behind the lines are either being ransomed or have been abandoned to their fate.
no need for citizens, the dems are bringing in new replacement voters
I believe you have described the Uniparty-Globalist plan. They also have
votingcheating machines as insurance …perhaps made in china, with chinese “chips” that can ‘call home’…
Exactly and cannot do enough for them ?
Benghazi . . . many, many times . . .
and Libya, too . . . no one coming to help . . . put on a great display of why American cannot be trusted to come through as an ally
It’s really NOT a crisis.
Use you gray matter. If they’re willing to call 80 million law abiding citizens domestic terrorists for exercising their 1st amendment right to criticize government, then collude with private companies to remove your words…why would you think this administration cares about 10k Americans in Afghanistan?
If the Taliban murders Americans, employers profit their pay while members of Congress families already cashed their checks.
“Even these guys cannot be this incompetent.”
I disagree.
The Democrat party is like a Marshmallow.
They have no center (core values ) which make them incompetent.
Yup Aristos have nothing but contempt for the peasantry.
Until the Bastille is Stormed.
That’s the only thing that gets their attention.
Yes it’s about the continued profits by the trillions
And now the master has called them out
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9905079/Trump-claims-COVID-booster-shots-money-making-operation-Pfizer.html
They can threaten all the “shock and awe” they want but hostages = human shields.
It looked like he wanted to define “Extremist Behavior”, and then somebody baled him out.
On a slightly different note and maybe I’m just the suspicious type, but what are the odds on the day we are hearing reports about missing gold, we have a Presidential plane leaving Ft. Knox right now?
Probably nothing but anyway……….
People need to read the Bible more, study it, and glean insights from it. I’m thinking of the scene where Christ took cords and cleaned the temple, overturning the carts and lashing the interlopers who’d turned his Father’s house into a place of commerece out into the courtyard. What you see in that scene is righteous indignation from someone confronted with a situation that was just wrong! What is happening here, in this gross debacle of thousands of Americans left to the mercy of the murdering, raping, Taliban thugs, should ignite the righteous indignation of every red-blooded American. As the virtue-signaling left is so fond of bleating, “THIS IS NOT WHO WE ARE!”
It’s not a failure of the military or a lack of capability. But the leaders, illegitimately installed, have no backbone for what it takes to protect our people and so see their options through that sorry, woebegone prism. With the same military at his disposal, does anyone doubt that Trump would bring the full force of the military to bear against the Taliban to get our people? Heck, he never would have left them there like that in the first place, as he moved our forces out! Incompetence on top of incompetence.
Austin should go back to his Pentagon knitting circle and do something worthwhile, like figuring out all the different nasty communiques that can be fired off at the Taliban. That’s about as “butch” a military response as we can expect from this truly pathetic administration.
Headline surfing today produced this mental image/metaphor/meme of Joe Sh__:
He is like a Film Noir derelict/patsy/purloined morgue occupant, soaked with cheap gin and positioned behind a deliberately crashing car to be immolated in furtherance of some nefarious plot which requires a fall guy and a wrecked and blown up vehicle.
And like the plot hole in “The Big Sleep” who’s really driving the car if nobody killed the Chauffeur?
add to that, if there are any questions about why this and why that, illogical things, unanswered questions . . . a bunch of stuff that might have been explanatory was left on the cutting-room floor
Well done!
What a heartless disgusting incompetent excuse for a military leader. Shame, shame, shame on all of them!!!!!!!!!!!
All they do is lie…
It should go like this…
Dear Taliban,
Do not stop Americans from leaving. Control your “civilians” and keep them from the airport until we leave this dump.
1. If this is not followed we will vaporize every Taliban leaders home village and piss on the ashes and after that we will go for you.
There is no 2.
Hugs and goats!
Signed
America
P.S. We will melt your country to glass without ever sending another soldier if you mess with us again.
Rambo was an infantryman and Green Beret to be exact. He wasn’t an aircraft nor a bomber. This is a non-sensical comparison.
Also not sure what or who the other dozen countries are or how they even relate to the situation.
Bombing does work and has always worked.
Try harder.
Did in Yugoslavia. Of course that was to SERVICE the Ragbags.
Watch Rambo so you can make sense.
Depends on who they’re dropped on.
My solution for Mohammadan Hegemony has long been The Finger in the Cigar Cutter Doctrine.
ID the 5 Holiest Sites in Mohammad Land, no matter if they are in Downtown Riyadh.
Start with #5 and nuke it so dirty that the Mullah’s Grandkids’, Grandkids’, Grandkids will still be going to Friday Prayer Meeting in lead underwear.
Give Global Islam One Moon to send us the heads, packed in chitterlings, of every last Jihadi on the planet or #4 gets it just like loping off fingers with a cigar cutter.
We wouldn’t have to go to #3 before every Assahola, Muleha, Sheik, and Bugger would be falling over each other to drop a dime on their favorite brothers-in-law.
They may have time, but Radiated Holy Sites have half-lives of Centuries.
Sorta puts a crimp in the collection plate.
This is how they laugh at us. How they gloat over conquering the United States of America without firing a shot in November 2020.
Behind closed doors Austin turns to Milly and says; and they I said we dont have the capability.
They both laugh
Never mind Afghanistan, something not American is in charge of this/our country as you may have noticed, we are all their prisoners now.
This guy and his sidekick are not American. That I guarantee.
Indeed. They are globalists
or heart inflamed and sterilized.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1428095392185569283
We Need More Autopsies.
Nobody does this when 10,000 American citizens lives are at stake behind enemy lines unless there are ulterior motives we don’t know about.
Thats how covid continues to rig elections. Until they get enough foreign replacements to vote.
As you may have noticed, they are not worried one bit about being voted out of power.
Don’t forget his war on women and children here in the USA. Americans in Afghanistan are there by choice. No one forced them to go there.
In American they have stolen votes. Silenced voices. Forced vaccines. Forced booster shots. Forced mask mandates. Forced CRT. Stolen bathrooms. Stolen locker rooms. Stolen sports.
STOLE TRILLION$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
And this is what we get for $750,000,000,000 /year (more than the next 5-7 countries combine spend on their military) ?
Just a reminder, 30%-40% of America support this idiot. 30-40% have the morality of a Biden.
Yet they are all silent. Not even a little Trump bashing.
Another administration Affirmative Action hire. This is the type of moron hiring for skin color gets you. What a total disgrace to a great nation.
It’s hard to know just which is more stupid, the Defense Secretary or installed resident Joe Biden.
There are certainly highly competent Blacks.
They were passed over for austin because of their competence and loyalty to the Constitution.
True. Blacks also have an Average IQ that is borderline retarded. This is never mentioned because facts are racist.
are we honestly going to cry about the absolute moron suicidal altruists and the “citizen” Muslims that chose to be in Afghanistan?
Good riddance. They are all of the people we don’t want back. Let them all rot in the hell they refuse to admit that normally practiced Islam creates
This administration screwed 10k pipeline workers, and now 10k Americans doing nation building.
Who are the next 10k Americans this administration will screw?
Indeed. But don’t forget the old folks murdered in the nursing homes too.
How soon until the chosen replacement comes along with blazing guns and “saves the day”?
Wouldn’t surprise me if this was the set-up for Harris, Cankles, or some random Obama to prove they can handle the tough job.
China, Russia and ALL of our enemies around the world fully realize that they now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make permanent strategic moves against the United States while Biden occupies the White House. The global geopolitical balance of power is now at risk because of the abject stupidity and incompetence of the entire Biden regime. China is laying the foundation to take Taiwan, Russia is potentially going to move against the Ukraine and the Baltic States, and Iran will also make some moves.
Maybe we need to further open our eyes and see that this “incompetence” is actually “intentional?”
The only hope for world stability at this point is the hand of God and/or overturning the 2020 election. Even if Joe resigns or is removed from office by the 25th Amendment, then we will have Kamala in charge which is equally frightening.
BINGO
Paywalled article in the London Telegraph
MPs and peers from across the political spectrum, including Boris Johnson, put some blame for the Taliban’s takeover and the chaos that followed on Britain’s closest ally.
Mr Biden was accused of “throwing us and everybody else to the fire” by pulling out US troops, and was called “dishonourable” for criticising Afghan forces for not having the will to fight.
Former defence chiefs who led British troops in the Middle East were among those to speak out, while there were warnings that the West’s withdrawal would embolden Russia and China.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/08/18/parliament-holds-joe-biden-contempt-afghanistan/
Austin is an idiot. Just a patsy.
Do not let those worthless Generals fool you, this was meticulously planned out to get as many people killed as possible. They are itching for Afghan 2 for 20 more years.
When they start beheading American citizens and believe me it is gonna happen. Those cave dwellers will not be able to resist killing infidels. Mark my words when heads start getting lopped off the screaming in America will give the military complex the greenlight for revenge and another 20 years and trillions of dollars.
This was planned out to a tee, and I guarantee some traitors somewhere in DC are high fiving each other because this has worked out better than they dreamed.
If Biden is still in Whitehouse he will be called a hero wartime president… but I believe they are planning all this for heels up Cameltoe Kamala and Nancy Ice Cream Pelosi.
If you can not see this coming you are blind.
It’s 25th Amendment time, fellow Treepers.
And it will be for Wiilie Brown’s Bratwurst bun in due time.
Jimmy Carter and his gang that couldn’t shoot straight looks like they were real leaders……in comparison to the complete collection of mouth breathing Buy Done executive’s.
Thanks Globalists for your election fraud that is directly responsible for subjecting patriots to this Fiasco, which we will have to remedy.
If Biden is removed for the 25th over Afghanistan, which you know he didn’t have the final say on, it lets him off the hook for being removed for the senile decrepit election stealer he actually is.
He is unfit on so many fronts, Afghanistan is just the latest.
We need to make him and them own every single darned thing they have f’ed up since he was installed:
-XL Pipeline terminated (costing American jobs and energy independence) while supporting the Russian pipeline overseas
-USA economy tanking fast, (inflation, encouraging overseas production, consumer buying index very lows, etc.)
-southern border is a sieve, importing COVID and criminals, not screening for terrorists, drugs pouring through border
-military focused on inclusion and white rage while being military leaders are disgraced in real time
-constitution trashed, masks mandates, vax mandates and potential withholding of benefits if not vaxed
-states’ rights circumvented
-radicals put in administration lead positions
-using the Federal Govt to intimidate and harass states over voting rights issues
-trying to codify the process to steal elections going forward
-more executive orders in his first months than any other president, all to the detriment of the American people
And so on.
Afghanistan is one piece of a large picture.
They sold the American public a lie.
JoeBama was never up to the task of being our president. A mere 8 months into his residency and it’s hugely apparent he’s a disaster on every single front.
Most of us know he would not even serve his full term. Some of us even prophesied that he’d be gone within a year. I guess we have our answer.
I’ll give him a participation award for eating ice cream well if he receives it in Gitmo and takes, Harris, Obama, Pelosi and Schumer with him.
President Biden, who has spent the last few days traveling between the White House and Camp David, is scheduled to head to Delaware for a long weekend.
That’s according to the FAA’s website
He’s tired from all his naps. Needs a new beddy-bye location.
What’s the Raytheon stock going for??!$
The reason why he looked befuddled is because he didn’t want to come out and say how many pallets of cash they offered the Taliban to let the Americans out. I am confused as to how all these D RAT Governors are saying they will take in thousands of Afgans, but how are they going to get out if there is no airport to fly them out?
EXC: Joe Biden’s State Dept Halted a Trump-Era ‘Crisis Response’ Plan Aimed at Avoiding Benghazi-Style Evacuations Just MONTHS Before Taliban Takeover. (thenationalpulse.com)
So Austin … if the American military can not do anything … why did you bring them back?
EXC: Joe Biden’s State Dept Halted a Trump-Era ‘Crisis Response’ Plan Aimed at Avoiding Benghazi-Style Evacuations Just MONTHS Before Taliban Takeover. (thenationalpulse.com)
Joe Biden’s State Department moved to cancel a critical State Department program aimed at providing swift and safe evacuations of Americans out of crisis zones just months prior to the fall of Kabul, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.The “Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau” – which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning Americans overseas was paused by Anthony Blinken’s State Department earlier this year. Notification was officially signed just months before the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
just shut off electricity to bumper cars. Jerusalem Post has video of the fearsome taliban and their long guns taking over all the bumper car rides in some park. neanderthal meets iron age
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/08/17/taliban-killing-people-bibles-phones/
But not breaking twitter rules.
Not sure if I am buying this. I don’t like the sound of it, nor the convenient picture of those being fleeced. Its most likely a CIA post as they try to cover up their catastrophic 20 year money laundering operation in Afghanistan. It was never about changing minds and hearts, it was about controlling the fields of poppies and the opium trade. Black financial Opps.