exhaustive report issued by the delightful acronym SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction) even hints — discreetly — at the crucial connection; Operation Enduring Freedom feeding America’s heroin epidemic.
Afghanistan is infested by contractors; numbers vary from 10,000 to tens of thousands. Military and ex-military alike can be reasonably pinpointed as players in the heroin ratline — in many cases for personal profit. But the clincher concerns the financing of US intel black ops that should not by any means come under scrutiny by the US Congress.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/08/no_author/cia-heroin-ratline/

Your EYES, polluted with sunscreen and propaganda, should Still be able to see it. The banks use the money, the stock market gets propped up, prisons filled, justification for more cops, CIA black budget, but Ohhh, not My America,
Bullshit
Iran Contra proved we do it.