 He complained that many people, especially at USAID, design programmes "without considering the fact that you have a tribal government, that you have a criminal element there".He said that although 8 billion dollars had been spent combatting the narcotics trade, he thought the effort overall was an abject failure.More acres are growing opium, more opium is being produced, there are tighter relationships between the opium traffickers and the terrorists (who are getting more money), and there are more Afghan addicts.