The anti-collecting clique need to take a look at this: Leo Hornak, 'Afghanistan's Taliban and ISIS have the same funding model: Drugs', PRI's The World October 15, 2015. More evidence, if any were needed, that US collectors are not funding ISIS.This is based on an interview with Ed Follis who was the US Drug Enforcement Agency's Afghanistan Attache in the aftermath of 9/11:
The Afghan Taliban is dependent on opiate trafficking for about 95 percent of its income. And without that source of funds [...] it would pose a far less formidable problem to the Kabul government and the international community. "The Taliban would be highly localised, and they would revert back to their original organised crime portfolio: human trafficking, arms trafficking, kidnapping for hire and so on." [...] Follis sees the same dynamics at play in Syria and Iraq with the growth of the Islamic State, which he believes is also dependent on income from narcotics trafficking. The drug trade is key to fighting ISIS and Follis argues that the West has put too much emphasis on punitive measures against the "end user" — the consumers of narcotics — to stop trafficking. "We have no moral justificiation for pursuit of the end users," he says.
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