The Obama administration has shifted gears in Afghanistan, rejecting the Bush administration's emphasis on opium poppy eradication in favor of attacking Taliban-linked drug trafficking networks as it increases the number of US military personnel in the country to nearly 70,000. Along with that increase in American servicemen and women in Afghanistan, the administration is also ramping up the DEA presence in the country.
Afghanistan produces more than 90% of the world's opium poppy supply, from which heroin is derived. One province now in the sights of a 4,000 strong US Marine expeditionary force, Helmand province, by itself produces more than half of all Afghan opium and if it were its own country, would be the world's largest opium supplier.
While all factions in Afghanistan have their fingers in the poppy pie, including numerous officials and warlords linked to the Karzai government, the US and NATO are especially interested in disrupting those portions of the drug trade that help finance the Taliban insurgency. The Taliban is estimated to make hundreds of millions of dollars a year from taxing poppy crops, acting as armed escorts for drug caravans, and running international drug trafficking operations.
In the past, the Taliban has benefitted from eradication campaigns in at least two ways. First, to the extent such campaigns are successful, they drive up the price of opium, which the Taliban has abundantly stockpiled. Second, the eradication campaigns have proven a fertile recruiting tool for the Taliban as farmers angry at seeing their livelihoods destroyed look to join those who ostensibly oppose eradication.
The USA's terrorist campaign on the world
As few Americans actually realize, the USA is a terrorist nation, Seriously people, the shit our government pulls, on the rest of the world, is worthy of a nuclear attack. First we occupy a country, kill it's civilians, including CHILDREN by the thousands, and impose our twisted laws on their country.
This covert attack on Afghanistan's farmers, and now trafficers is friggin insane. Just as if China came over here and started a war against something they don't like, like McDonalds.
These people are so f*cked over there, they survive any way they can, we don't have the right to inflict harm to other people of the world for our own agenda's, especially, civilians.
And, what we're doing in Colombia is so f*cking WRONG it boggles my mind. We're over there, giving away billions of dollars, and spraying herbicide all over everything, people food crops, drinking water wells, as well as the diversity of other plants known to be harmless.
What makes our government think they're doing the right thing? How can anyone with any smarts, even remotely think this is okay? We are the terrorists of the world, we are the killers of the children, we crush, we kill, we destroy, we ruin, we suck.
America isn't America anymore, it's become a terrorist nation, a nation bent on forcing it's way's, and sick views, on the world. Let's face it, our government thinks it can do whatever it wants, to whoever it wants. Look at Cheny's death squad. How American is that?
The whole concept of a "war on drugs" is so abstract, the idea that one can have a war with an inanimate object, boarders insanity, on the inside. It's obvious tyranny has a strong foot hold in US government, look people, this is what tyranny looks like, see how they get away with crimes, and nobody cares. Kinda like shoplifting, if you get away with it once, you realize how easy it is, so it escalates, the security guard confronts you one day, he's about 4'6", your about 6' 6" 250 lbs. so, you pick up the guard by his head, and ask, "is there a problem", then put him down and continue on your way, stuffing shit in your pocket's. The next time you go, you bring a truck. The president, in fact all government, HATE our constitution, their whole goal is to destroy it, the more damage they can do to it the better. That's why the oath they take say's, "and to protect and preserve the constitution of the US". Because, the founding fathers knew, the rules set out in it, would conflict with some personal agenda's. What I don't get is why we like being f*cked so much, I mean in the way the government does it.
Re: The USA's terrorist campaign on the world
Ward Churchill? Is that you? ;-)
dea and drugs
The DEA is a joke. What has the DEA done about Marijuana or Heroin in the U.S.A.? Nothing but incarcerate people and protect their jobs. The same thing will happen in Afghanistan.
bananas?
Before you dismiss Joe's rant (he's gone bananas), consider these indisputable facts about the USA in its first 2+ centuries:
We supplied the planes used by RAF pilots to destroy 80,000 men, women, children, doctors, nurses, hospitals in Dresden 10 miles from the meat warehouse where P.O.W. Private Vonnegut huddled on the night when he was 22 years, 3 months and 2 days of age;
We bombed away even more civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki 4-5 weeks before my late Downs Syndrome younger brother was conceived;
We invented the suicide bomber (that's the drunk driver in the next car approaching you around the bend, in your lane; legalized cannabis could have eliminated binge drinking parties from the planet forever);
We built up the worldwide advertising juggernaut known as Big 2Wackgo, now in its diversified forms inflicting a reported (WHO, Feb. 7, 2008) 5.4-million-deaths-per-year genocide on the world (a cigarette helps that binge-drinker "clear his head" and get in the car to start driving your way);
US economic sanctions, military power and aid to specific politicians and parties keep the anti-cannabis laws in force everywhere on the planet, such as in Pakistan (alias TobaccoStand) where 10% of all government revenues are derived from cigarette taxes.
War Crime
Obama is a war criminal for not stopping the wars. Afghan and Iraq. He still puts people in cages for plants what an ass hole he is.
Obama is nothing but shit.
Definitely a 'hazard pay' post
And any DEA Agent who wants to roll the dice on their personal survival by 'serving' there is welcome to do so. I imagine the locals on meeting their first Agents will provide a very warm welcome, indeed. For it won't be disarmed, mellow and easily brutalized 'pot-heads' they'll be chasing, but tribesmen with a several thousand year history of guerilla warfare practically bred into their genes.
By all means, DEA, please, have at it. The more, the merrier. Though, if I were in charge of their life-insurance policy, I'd be tempted to cancel their coverage...
Numbers?
Dont know how accurate this post is: the UK has some 5,000 troops in Helmand, and we are suffering losses daily.... five in one incident last weekend.
Reports of US troops in Helmand give strengthe at 8,000, with 120 helicopters............ Brit forces are allowed only ten or so by Gordon the Moron, and is the reason for our high casualty rate.
Why dont the CIA send in hundreds, grab all the opium, and fund a few new wars for the sake of Capitalism and the Bankers: some may think its a winner............
great
finaly we will see these punk dea fucks get theres .im gonna call thier main office and offer to bury the carcusus of these dipshits for free.ill break out the back hoe al roker get your camera as there will be some real action now .finaly a drug war you can sink your teeth in.
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