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If indeed Western intelligence agencies are responsible for the sudden Afghan poppy plague, let us be clear: It will go down in the annals of counter-intelligence as one of the stupidest blunders ever made by the West's blinkered spooks. It would be a classic case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing. With the US army (and therefore NATO) supposedly doing what it can to win "hearts and minds," a hush-hush operation to ruin poppy harvests would seem to directly contradict the larger strategy.