Opium Harvest At Record Level In Afghanistan

This was a predictable outcome of the Afghan "war". As bad as the Taliban were, they were the only ones who reduced Opium production. Little did they know that that was one of the reasons they were to be invaded.

This in fact was predicted by many astute observers. Wall Street needs its laundered drug money.

Mike
Winnipeg

As my lawyer would say. Pluck the chicken until it squacks.(referring of course to his fees) They know that the Pro American loving conservatives will roll over and play dead. That is until our chicken is naked.

"As bad as the Taliban were, they were the only ones who reduced Opium production."

. . .in order to drive up the street value. Now they need more money, they show their true colours. Is opium production up in areas controlled by the coalition?

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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

You are way off base Dr. Caleb. The Taliban's destruction of the opium fields was considered to be economic warfare against the US.

How much has the street value gone up. Do you know? Not to mention that Afghanistan gets nothing for the street value of heroin in the west, where most of the opium is refined. The amount of money made from opium in Afghanistan is peanuts. The real money ends up in hands outside Afghanistan.

The real question to ask is, is opium production up in areas run by CIA controlled warlords? These warlords control the areas that really matter. And why don't we crack down on Pakistani heroin production, which helps finance the Musharraf regime.



Mike

Like I’ve said before, “Is it sham-poo or is it real poo

Bad USA! BAD, bad bad!

It so happens that for bedtime reading I chose Noam Chomsky’s “What Uncle Sam REALLY d efforts of thWANTS.” Page 83 has this to offer,

The war on (certain) drugs.

…In early September 1989, a major government–media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.
The effect on public opinion was immediate. When Bush won the 1988 election, people said the budget deficit was the biggest problem facing the country. ONLY ABOUT 3% NAMED DRUGS. After the media blitz concerns over the budget was way down and drugs has soared to 40% or 45% which is highly unusual for an open question (where no specific answers are suggested.

My comments and I shall now preach to the choir as the congregation don’t seem to be getting the point, judging by some of the responses we get here and on other sites similar.
Judging by the poll results on inescapable conclusion is that those who adhere to msm can be swayed this way and that by concertee media, in other words, attention goes to where it is directed.

Who was that that went all ballistic on attention being focused on America?
Oh yeah, It was Bino.

America gets the attention because its actions are in your face 24/7 and those of us who are aware of the continuum of US action fro Gun-Boat diplomacy till the present day realise there are no isolated incidents.
Back to the topic at hand…

Drugs, like war, are good business.
The judiciary flourishes on anything they have been instrumental is becoming il-legal Banks have already been mentioned as profiteers in money launderings
If I have inadvertently overlooked anybody feel free to contribute














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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch

The Taliban might well be encouraging the phenomenal increase in the poppy crop, both in order to provide the local farmers with a surefire income (when oh when will the west learn that a farmer simply does not want to grow corn when he stand a good chance of starving to death trying to get a price for it? Check out the "plan" to encourage cocoa growers in Columbia to grow other crops to sell under market conditions. Real democracy there, right? Except they did so well growing their corn, etc. that there was a glut on the market, and the price fell to zip), <b>AND</b> to create a glut of product on the world market, thus lowering the price to next to nothing, creating not only more addicts, but playing hobbs with the whole market economy, <b>AND</b> removing the buckets of money used for payoffs to the world's governments that make the distribution possible. <p>If the evil stuff is to be used by the infidel, that is entirely different than being used by the devout.</p><p>---<br>"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."<br />
- Justice Louis Brandeis