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  The problem becomes practically insurmountable unless one systematically weeds out corrupt officials in Iran, Pakistan and Iraq who control the flow of drugs, bribed by Afghani drug barons. The officials are frequently at the very top levels of government, not just at local level.
  
  I heard of a case recently where eleven truck loads of top grade heroin were detected at a Pakistan border checkpoint from Afghanistan. The border guards were instructed to allow the shipment to proceed following a phonecall from by a ministerial official - one can only speculate as to the size of the payment the official was in receipt of to allow this. Clearly the convoy was expected.
  
  Even the brother of Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, has extremely deep involvement in narcotics, notably opium and heroin smuggling. With such deep corruption across the whole region, what hope have a few thousand NATO troops got to collapse the drug trade?

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