With enemies like ISIS-K, who needs friends?

Bill.in.PA · 2024-03-27T19:16:16.684Z

ISIS-K has campaigned against the Taliban and is reportedly responsible for terrorist attacks against Russia and Iran. In addition, ISIS and ISIS-K have provided a pretext for US forces to stay in Syria and Iraq.

It is as if ISIS-K did not exist, folks in Washington would have to create it . . .

What is the real relationship between ISIS-K and the US government?

Are alleged attempts to target ISIS-K modeled after so-called poppy-eradication programs during the US occupation of Afghanistan?

2006: Despite eradication efforts of the US-backed government, opium production is soaring, and the Taliban is benefiting.

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Afghanistan: Poppy Eradication Failing And Taliban Benefitting

Afghan police involved in opium poppy eradication in Shindand Province in April (epa) Afghanistan's Helmand Province is poised to have a large opium poppy crop this year, despite a fledgling eradication program there. Until this year there has been...

2023: The Taliban’s successful repeat of the 2000-2001 eradication of poppy production is harming Afghans.

United States Institute of Peace

The Taliban’s Successful Opium Ban is Bad for Afghans and the World

The Taliban have done it again: implementing a nearly complete ban against cultivation of opium poppy — Afghanistan’s most important agricultural product — repeating their similarly successful 2000-2001 prohibition on the crop. But the temptation to...

johnrandolph · 2024-03-30T11:35:53.151Z

The ISIS and its offshoots are an ongoing CIA/NED/USAID pet project.