What is a good/reasonable response to this argument?

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The US armed the Taliban in the first place. Afghanistan is a trillion-dollar racket for arms manufacturers and oil companies, there is no humanitarian pretense as the question implies.

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Don’t forget all that sweet, sweet heroin; 90% of the global supply

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What? 90%?

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I think it’s less than 90% now that Taliban have been effectively banning it. But during the decade where American occupation and allied forces controlled most of the country, heroin production increased to outpace any other global supplier.

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I know, right?

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