Afghanistan and the War on Drugs

[SammyB]

Is there a political or otherwise rational reason why we never obliterated the poppy fields in Afghanistan?

[ThaSaltCracka]

you would think our president who is so adamently against drugs would have done something about this but...... well.... there is more important things to be done in Afghanistan, like building a big pipe line across is.

[J.R.]

The majority of the heroin in the US doesn't come from there, and a cynic might say the US's attitude is let the Afghan heroin reap havoc elsewhere as long as it stays away form US soil. The real problem is just south of the US from America's perspective.

mexico & colombia (http://www.mapinc.org/ccnews/v03/n860/a07.html?357)

Somewhat pre-afghan war data (http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/international/factsht/heroin.html)

Afghan heroin to central asia and eastern europe (http://dawn.com/2003/06/26/int5.htm)

[bigpooch]

How else could the financing of arms take place? It was
probably a CIA idea anyways; didn't Brezhinski et al state
openly that they were engineering a Soviet Vietnam war for
awhile? Now that the "freedom fighters" (now considered
"terrorists") have a method of financing their activities,
it would take the CIA to change their own agenda for this to
happen. Consult Loretta Napoleoni's Modern Jihad for more
enlightenment (on this topic, especially pp. 81-85).
[Surprisingly, Osama bin Laden was oblivious to the CIA's
operations that assisted him in the past!]

The war on drugs is a joke anyways; it's just the finely
tuned propoganda machine spinning to brainwash the masses
into thinking that the enemy is outside whereas in reality
they ought to focus within: did Bush snort or Clinton
inhale? /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Al_Capone_Junior]

Yes. Money. The war on drugs is really a money making scheme. With no drugs, there can be no war on them. Then all the [censored] cops won't have jobs. If you think the war on drugs is anything else, well then you are the idiot.

al

[Al_Capone_Junior]

Personally, I could care less if bill inhaled (I'd be MORE likely to vote for him knowing he was adruggie). And if george W snorted coke, well maybe he should try some more. Since I despise the hypocritical war on drugs, and all the lives it ruins, the more politicians who are druggies, the better off we all are. As someone who's done every drug in the book (about a million times each), can't we all just get high and chill the f*ck out?

al

[Al_Capone_Junior]

Interesting articles.

The REAL problem is DENIAL. People have been doing drugs for thousands of years. They will keep doing them for thousands more. Trying to stamp out sin is for [censored] puritanical hypocrites who were simply repressed by their [censored] puritanical parents.

al