Can we at least do this how can we expect to achieve results when we are burning away their economy.
We stopped a while back.
Can we at least do this how can we expect to achieve results when we are burning away their economy.
But isn't their economy then based on the illegal drug trade? I mean we can argue whether or not we should do it. Burning their crops definitely makes things harder on us and makes things well more unfriendly. But at the same accord....what they're doing is engaging in illegal drug trade. So it's not like we're burning corn or wheat.
No we can use them to treat drug addicts if we buy them.
Yeah, but we can't buy the whole crop. And besides maybe us buying to make other drugs to ween people off harder drugs...they're still in the illegal drug trade. It's not like they're doing good things with their poppy crop.
Since when
U.S. won't burn poppy fields in Afghanistan
New strategy will promote planting alternative crops
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press
Posted: Sunday, June 28, 2009
TRIESTE, Italy - The U.S. is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan's drug trade, phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting efforts to fight trafficking and promote alternative crops, the U.S. envoy for Afghanistan said Saturday.
The aim of the new policy: to deprive the Taliban of the tens of millions of dollars in drug revenue that is fueling its insurgency.
The U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, said poppy eradication - for years a cornerstone of U.S. and U.N. drug trafficking efforts in the country - was not working and was only driving Afghan farmers into the hands of the Taliban.
"Eradication is a waste of money," Holbrooke said on the sidelines of a Group of Eight foreign ministers' meeting on Afghanistan, during which he briefed regional representatives on the new policy.
Looks like late June...
From the Associated Press:
Yea but that is crap they are not going to be able to do that over a short period of time its no replacement economically.
As long as the Taliban are buying weapons with the proceeds from Opium sales, the poppies must be destroyed.
No drugs = no drug money = no weapons for terrorists.
According to Bill Hillar, retired Colonel of the U.S. Army Special Forces, claimed that the US was actually escorting some poppy shipments out of Afghanistan and often looked the other way even as far back as 2004.
As long as the Taliban are buying weapons with the proceeds from Opium sales, the poppies must be destroyed.
No drugs = no drug money = no weapons for terrorists.
Except you ignore the large financing they get from the Gulf and from within Pakistan.
If burning the opium causes the populace to support the insurgents, we should stop burning the opium. No insurgency can survive without the support of the locals. Pissing off the locals to the point where they actively work against us is not the road to success.
we should just get the hell out.Can we at least do this how can we expect to achieve results when we are burning away their economy.
As long as the Taliban are buying weapons with the proceeds from Opium sales, the poppies must be destroyed.
No drugs = no drug money = no weapons for terrorists.
U guys like zombies. Propaganda from your media flooded everywhere. Terrorists... What kind of moron need to be to be unable to understand some simple things? They live at their own land. And when enemy is invaded at their homeland they start to fight for FREEDOM. Just imagine what would you do if for example Chinese or Russians invaded at your homeland? Kill your nations and bombed buildings? Terrorists... You guys true zombie.
I’ll give u some info. Since Afghanistan invasion its drug production were increased at 44 times! It’s not Taliban have money from drug selling, all money goes to NATO and USA. Drugs under control of NATO growth and produced in Afghan, after that it goes by military airplanes on Kosovo airbase, and there it given to albanian gangsters for sell by little parties to all over the Europe.
Since we came to the same conclusion.Since when
Burning their fields are a huge joke. For one, we were suppose to be over there fighting terrorists - not destroying nature like we often do at home. Afghanistan's police force can take care of this if they think it is a problem. After all, it would make good training exercise and some effort on their part, right?
More importantly, we seem to have trouble ridding our own soil from "drugs," so why expand our failed operations to other countries. :doh