Taliban get more money from US allies than drug trade

Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, said that the Taliban get more funding from donations from Persian Gulf countries than from the drug trade. Persian Gulf countries are US allies, so US allies are funding the Taliban.
"More money is coming from the Gulf than is coming from the drug trade to the Taliban," Holbrooke told journalists at NATO headquarters in Brussels. He didn't identify the countries where the sympathizers were donating from, but nations located on the Persian Gulf include Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq.

The mainstream story that drugs in Afghanistan serve to fund the Taliban is quite misleading: 1) Afghan government officials, supported by the US of course, also receive a lot of money from the drugs trade; 2) Taliban receive a lot of money from US allies in the Persian Gulf.
But we rarely hear about those 2 points because #2 inculpates US allies which the US wants to protect, and #1 inculpates US allies in Afghanistan which the US wants to protect. So in other words, US allies in the Gulf and Afghanistan are quite guilty but for the US that's not a problem.