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Originally Posted by P_Funk
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Originally Posted by Heibges
If the Taliban is buying weapons with it, then we should stop it, but I don't see really how we can.
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I know how. You stop trying to destroy the poppy fields. You make friends with the farmers and therefore stop giving the Taliban a desriable face as the only party to support their only economic option.
As long as you let the Taliban be the good guys to these farmers we'll be the bad guys. Its like prohibition in the US. It didn't work and it only made the mafia richer than they could ever have dreamed. |
I see. We buy it from them at a higher price than the Taliban is giving them. Rather like the "Guns for Toys" programs they have in many US cities around Christmas. That is a good idea.
I just wonder if the farmers would still be too scared of the Taliban to do business with us, regardless of the price.
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