I feel you partner, and let me dovetail your point regarding the Monroe Doctrine, as you well know the ploy was to keep out European imperialism, to allow America to get a taste.
Now the Monroe Doctrin occured it is said, around 1820 but as you pointed out globalism is much older then we think because here is what was aided and abetted on the other side of the planet, to take up for funds lost after the end of slavery, and continue the wealth of the funders of White Supremacy
t;The establishment of these trading companies — the core of Britain's Opium War infrastructure — fostered an epidemic- scale increase in opium trafficking into China. By 1830-31, the number of chests of opium brought into China increased fourfold to 18,956 chests. In 1836, the figure exceeded 30,000 chests. In financial terms, trade figures made available by both the British and Chinese governments showed that between 1829-1840, a total of 7 million silver dollars entered China, while 56 million silver dollars were sucked out by the soaring opium trade
And the American Factor of National "Interest";
The Russell, Coolidge, DeLeino, Forbes and Perkins families became fabulously rich smuggling Opium aboard their speedy Clipper ships into China. In 1820 Samuel Russell bought out the Perkins syndicate and ran the Opium smuggling operation with his partner Warren DeLeino Jr. who was the grandfather of President Franklin DeLeino Roosevelt.
So clearly Afghanistan has sentimental imperialist value for some and the continuation of the exploitation of a crop, the Taliban had abolished in Sept 2001, but restatred when US troops landed later that month
