The war in Afghanistan is as much about drugs as it is about eradicating terrorism. The effort to get indigenous farmers to produce crops other than heroin seems futile. The demand for drugs across the planet and particularly in the US is insatiable.
Perverse as it might sound, controlling the drug flow and its subsequent profits would pay for the national debt and some. The Taliban and Al Qaeda derive their funds from the drug trade, why not spoil the party?
The worlds appetitte for drugs is relentless, they are here to stay, just like sex and the Yankee’s !
We glorify alcohol and tax it, why not go all the way and do the same with narcotics?
We already propagate drugs they just happen to have corporate names like Merck, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline. End the nonsense now, legalize drugs and harvest a product which no better or worse than alcohol and tobacco.
Just imagine… a seductive Afghan female stretched across a gleaming Mustang, blowing smoke rings from her opium cigarette.
Unlikely? perhaps, but you never know…
It is quite fitting that we have just honored Veterans Day / Remembrance Day. In commonwealth countries such as the UK and Canada, people buy poppies to signify the battle field covered in red poppies, a metaphor not lost on the drug war which is costing lives in Afghanistan. It is blatantly clear the mission there has become unfocused and confused.
Some call for more troops, if that's case then send them to Pakistan to secure their nuclear infrastructure. The country is in peril. It would make better sense, an objective the American people could fully comprehend.
President Karzai is a puppet and throw back from the Bush years, his shelf life has expired. Historically the British and the Russians know something about this region and indeed Gorbachev has called for withdrawal of further engagement.
An exit from this 9th century BC country needs to be recognized and communicated. Not very many NATO countries are putting boots on the ground in harm’s way. Why should the Americans and British carry the majority of the burden and the blood ?
Perverse as it might sound, controlling the drug flow and its subsequent profits would pay for the national debt and some. The Taliban and Al Qaeda derive their funds from the drug trade, why not spoil the party?
The worlds appetitte for drugs is relentless, they are here to stay, just like sex and the Yankee’s !
We glorify alcohol and tax it, why not go all the way and do the same with narcotics?
We already propagate drugs they just happen to have corporate names like Merck, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline. End the nonsense now, legalize drugs and harvest a product which no better or worse than alcohol and tobacco.
Just imagine… a seductive Afghan female stretched across a gleaming Mustang, blowing smoke rings from her opium cigarette.
Unlikely? perhaps, but you never know…
It is quite fitting that we have just honored Veterans Day / Remembrance Day. In commonwealth countries such as the UK and Canada, people buy poppies to signify the battle field covered in red poppies, a metaphor not lost on the drug war which is costing lives in Afghanistan. It is blatantly clear the mission there has become unfocused and confused.
Some call for more troops, if that's case then send them to Pakistan to secure their nuclear infrastructure. The country is in peril. It would make better sense, an objective the American people could fully comprehend.
President Karzai is a puppet and throw back from the Bush years, his shelf life has expired. Historically the British and the Russians know something about this region and indeed Gorbachev has called for withdrawal of further engagement.
An exit from this 9th century BC country needs to be recognized and communicated. Not very many NATO countries are putting boots on the ground in harm’s way. Why should the Americans and British carry the majority of the burden and the blood ?
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