Afghanistan - oil

When you first locate Afghanistan on the map, immediately you see that there are no bodies of water surrounding Afghanistan nor are they a major producer of oil. Afghanistan is land locked. Since Afghanistan is not able to thrive off of those two major Middle East money makers, they have resorted to their own natural resource, poppies. Poppies are very lucrative because they are able to be converted into Heroine and Opium. Also, the profits from the poppies are used to support the Taliban. As we have seen, the Taliban is pro-violence, war and fighting and not something the United States supports. Sadly, Afghanistan is not the only land locked country, there are many other countries in the Middle East that are land locked, and not oil producers. I hope they can find other ways to support their population other than the drug trade.