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So there is a large percentage of Afghanistan's population that actually lives off this plant, and nothing else will grow there. Is it really the right thing to do to take that income away from them?
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So there is a large percentage of Afghanistan's population that actually lives off this plant, and nothing else will grow there. Is it really the right thing to do to take that income away from them?
Re: Opium Economy
It's not correct that "nothing else will grow there".
As far as I've understood the problem, nothing else will earn them anyway near that much money which they get from planting poppies. So, they're reluctant to change to something else.
The main problem I see is that we provide the market and "ask" for the product. They just provide and make a living out of it. If we stop to buy they'll need to change. But we're not stopping.
The whole thing about police forces destroying fields seems pure propaganda to appease the foreign forces in the country. The fields are basically not controllable for the forces that are in Afghanistan now.
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Re: Opium Economy
The Taliban reduced opium production massively. But then we aren't allowed to talk about that.
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Yup, they stored it in big warehouses and then later sold it off. If it wasn't illegal anyway, fixing the market like that would be a crime.
With enough data, any regime is bound to do something "right": terrorist wins peace prize - as he stopped planting bombs...
Why doesn't America do what it does in South America? Just ponce over there and spray it all. The locals get so much money out of the poppies they're not going to stop it.
The west needs to legalise drugs. That'd sort the problem out!
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Re: Opium Economy
If by "reduced" you mean widespread cultivation to fund their regime then you are correct. Selling opium and heroin to the "West" is part of the Islamocrazies war against our way of life. I suspect that if there were limits on production it was done to strengthen the Taliban's control of the opium market.Originally Posted by Idaho
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A war against our way of life? Maybe its a drug people like to use and have been using for quite some time. The vast majority of people are scared to use it, and rightly so.
Re: Opium Economy
Maybe you need to keep it in context. One of the reasons they supported and encouraged the production of opium is to have us die from it.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
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