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Like ... yeah ... why has this taken so long ... so obvious it's sickening really.
All the troops ... all the fighting ... and an obvious source of income untouched.
MUNICH (AP) — In an effort to strike at a key income source for Taliban militants, the top NATO commander said Sunday that operations to attack drug lords and labs in Afghanistan will begin within the "next several days."
Gen. John Craddock, who also heads the U.S. European Command, also said that the U.S. and its allies are making progress in their efforts to fill the need for more troops, equipment and intelligence gathering in Afghanistan. He, however, would not disclose any specific commitments he got this weekend as world leaders met at a security conference here.
NATO defense ministers, during a meeting last fall in Hungary, authorized troops in Afghanistan to launch the drug attacks, but there had been questions about whether allies would be willing to follow through. Money from Afghanistan's booming illicit drug trade has been blamed for pumping up to $100 million a year into the coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters.
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Re: NATO commander: Afghanistan drug raids imminent
The reason why they don't go after opium, and assorted other drugs, is cuz it's the primary resource there. Everyone grows it, and if you piss off the people, then you'll be fighting both the warlords & taliban, not to mention the farmer villages that survive off of harvesting it. Touchy deal with the poppy over there.
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Re: NATO commander: Afghanistan drug raids imminent
It's an unfortunate remnant from when we used to help them use drugs to fund fights against the USSR... and before that a remnant of when the British used drugs and opium to weaken China and India.
Re: NATO commander: Afghanistan drug raids imminent
Yes, at what point do the conservatives on this forum acknowledge the U.S.'s decades-long role in opium trade? (Heck, their mortal enemy Bill Clinton played a huge role in it, .... you'd think they'd drool over that juicy aspect of his presidency).
I mean, do they DENY the federal importation of drugs into this country, and the $400-600 BILLION laundered into western economies through Wall St. banks?
The fact that the Taliban -- which USED TO burn the poppy crops, but now uses it for funding and turning the tide in their war -- is suddenly infringing on the imperialists' meal ticket must have them seeing red at this point. Suddenly, we must crack down, no pun intended.
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Re: NATO commander: Afghanistan drug raids imminent
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Originally Posted by PressCoverage
Yes, at what point do the conservatives on this forum acknowledge the U.S.'s decades-long role in opium trade? (Heck, their mortal enemy Bill Clinton played a huge role in it, .... you'd think they'd drool over that juicy aspect of his presidency).
I mean, do they DENY the federal importation of drugs into this country, and the $400-600 BILLION laundered into western economies through Wall St. banks?
The fact that the Taliban -- which USED TO burn the poppy crops, but now uses it for funding and turning the tide in their war -- is suddenly infringing on the imperialists' meal ticket must have them seeing red at this point. Suddenly, we must crack down, no pun intended.
Goes all the way back to Burma during the Viet NAm war... nothing new there..
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Re: NATO commander: Afghanistan drug raids imminent
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Originally Posted by PressCoverage
Yes, at what point do the conservatives on this forum acknowledge the U.S.'s decades-long role in opium trade? (Heck, their mortal enemy Bill Clinton played a huge role in it, .... you'd think they'd drool over that juicy aspect of his presidency).
I mean, do they DENY the federal importation of drugs into this country, and the $400-600 BILLION laundered into western economies through Wall St. banks?
The fact that the Taliban -- which USED TO burn the poppy crops, but now uses it for funding and turning the tide in their war -- is suddenly infringing on the imperialists' meal ticket must have them seeing red at this point. Suddenly, we must crack down, no pun intended.
So true, I bet most people in the US don't even realize that the US was behind the opium crops there, and it was the TALIBAN who existed to burn the crops and challenge the damage of drugs in their country. The British aren't innocent either, they started the whole thing 200 years ago to infiltrate the Indian and Chinese economies.
NATO commander: Afghanistan drug raids imminent
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