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Originally Posted by Reaves
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Originally Posted by Heibges
I agree with you fully, but believe the issue is who is using the money from the sale of opium in Afghanistan.
If the Taliban is buying weapons with it, then we should stop it, but I don't see really how we can.
We can't stop the flow from South/Central America to the US with the whole Navy/Coast Guard/DEA/National Guard at our disposal, I see little hope for doing so on the other side of the world.
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Which is why focus should be on removing the Taliban or the weapon runners who supply them. The farmers are just trying to make a living with the cards they are dealt. Bring order to the chaos and farmers will start growing more legitimate produce.
The question is how do we bring that order and what is the cost? |
The problem is "lucrative" crops tend to not be lucrative for very long, and terrible for the soil. But this has been a problem even in the Western World for 300 years, so what can you do? The fact is, the Industrial Revolution really hammered the agricultural economy.
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