What I do know about Afghanistan is we have serious problems over there and if we don't do something it's going to go south for us all. The opium crops are funding the corrupt officials that we elected to government, without the poppy crop, there is no illegal money floating around. The efforts to destroy the crops caused problems with the farmers and rooting out the drug trade there was left to England and it has basically turn into a farce. I say if we can call in air strikes to burn the field, protected by the outside Taliban fighters, we can undercut the money that corruption is using to fund and undermines our efforts at representative government. "According to the UN opium production in Afghanistan rose from 149 tons in 2001 to over 8000 tons in 2008." Now if we are dead set on changing things there we will destroy the crops, all of them. If our defense contractors are to continue status quo and the illegal monetary gains from the crops then things will get no better there . It's a no-brainer night and day scenario.