So what good have we done in the Afghanistan “War” with the Taliban? Well, since the U.S. have become intimately involved in the “rebuilding” of the infrastructure for the Afghan people, we have somehow helped drugs to flourish. The Bush administrations invasion in 2001 has done nothing but cause an escalation of activity. 5 years ago heroin “poppy” farm lands used 7,600 hectares of Afghan land. Today cultivation has risen to 165,000 hectares or 408,000 acres to you people from Ferndale. And get this, Afghan supplies 92% of all the heroin in the world! Just another reason to end our invasion of other countries. War. What is it good for? That’s right, absolutely nuttin!
Drug war, Taliban, poppies are all in full flower / Opium, thugs bloom under U.S. policies in Afghanistan war
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Its very sad. Poppy is basically the only export of Afghanistan so we really cant go in their and kill the poppy's without affecting people. We should have learned from the Soviets to stay the heck out of Afghanistan. Were getting our own Karma back. We suppoprted the Mujahadeen (Religious nutjobs) in their fight against the soviets, by teaching them geurilla tactics and arming them with RPGs. Funny thing is, if we didnt try to create a vietnam for the soviets, none of this would have happened. Karma.
The U.S. government is the biggest drug-smuggling mafia in the world. The CIA has been smuggling heroin and cocaine since at least the mid-sixties. The massive drug profits fund covert campaigns, and don't have to be reported to Congress. The CIA first started smuggling heroin from Laos, during the Vietnam genocide.
Both Turkey and Afghanistan are major poppy growing areas, both closely allied with and subservient to the U.S. government. The Turkish and Afghan heroin which goes to Europe is smuggled through Albania and Kosovo by Albanian mafias, closely allied with the U.S. government.
That is one of the reasons the U.S. falsely vilified the Serbs and slaughtered over 3000 Serbian men, women and children in 1999, in another heavily propagandized military campaign. The U.S. wanted control of Kosovo, and now has a major base there, named "Camp Bondsteel." Not only is Turkish and Afghan heroin smuggled through there, but Kosovo, under U.S. control, is now a major white slave trading center, using young women from impoverished areas of the Ukraine, Russia and Moldova. They are either kidnapped directly or lured with the false promise of jobs.
Slavery still actually exists in this world, though most Americans have no idea. Slavery has always been an astronomically profitable business, second only to illicit drug production and distribution. There are slaves of all races, all over the world, most of them sex slaves bought by very wealthy people, many of them right here in the good old United States of America.
After World War Two, we asked ourselves how such horrors could happen, how such evil men could have been given unlimited power by their own people.
We thought we were better. We had contempt for "the good Germans" who enabled Hitler's crimes.
Who but ourselves can we blame for the rise of George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Richard Cheney, Condoleesa Rice, and the rest of that crew?
Who empowered these liars but us?
Who permitted them to lead us into military adventure in Iraq against the advice of, not our enemies, but our own allies? We did.
A majority of the American voters are so ignorant about the realities of history, about the nature of other countries and peoples, that we are putty in the hands of skillful power-seeking politicians.
If we want to be True Patriots, we need to educate ourselves and our children so well that we can never again be led astray into mistakes that so seriously damage our nation as the War in Iraq has done.
These are our very own chickens coming home to roost. The same men that thought it a good idea to arm and train the mujahadeen and create anarchy in Afghanistan are the very same men who have the US with a token presence there today, and in Iraq. We will see if Gates is going to be diffrent, but my guess is no.
I am going to research this, but I would be very interested if anybody else has information. NAmely, what was US cold war involvement in Chechnya? How are Chechnya and Afghanistan related, if at all?
Richard, you are always right on!(or at the least very close) Who are some of these morons that haven't the guts to put their names behind their comments? Glad you keep puttin it out there!
Elizabeth
Why is acceptable for "Elizabeth" to attack Anonymous posters, but not for Anonymous posters to criticize the equally anonymous "Elizabeth."
WHy is her sarcasm acceptable?
Do you know how boring your blog would be if all the Anonymous posters stopped posting here?
Elizabeth identified herself while being critical to anonymous posters. The anonymous poster who attacked her did so under the umbrella of anonymous. I did not think that was fair. She was transparent, the other hidden behind the cloak.
I have been very Liberal and open to anonymous posters. If you go through the archives of my posts, you will see people have taken many shots and I have let them slide.
Richard, Elizabeths post doesnt even make sense. Whatever...
I think Elizabeth has part of it correct... the moron part! Of course, it takes one to know one.
I am anonymous. Who is this anonymous "Elizabeth" who presumes to be superior to all of us who write our posts under the name "Anonymous?"
She refers to anonynmous posters as "morons" and says they have no guts because they post messages anonymously.
Posting anonymously, "Elizabeth," is an established and honorable practice in the blogosphere.
Do you agree with "Elizabeth," Richard, that Anonymous posters are "morons" who have no "guts?"
What is your view 'Elizabeth'? From what I can tell all the posts prior to yours actually agree with Richard, or seek to expand on Richards point. I dont care that you call all anon morons, but why on this thread? Their are many others where that might be true. So, I guess im just going to have to call 'Elizabeth' a bitch.
3:35-Wow, this is much ado about not much I would say. Elizabeth and I have been friends for well over 30 years. She is not a regular on the Blogs and probably surfed through the different threads and made a comment on this last thread. Yes, she would have witnessed some pretty strange posts that were posted anonymously. Don't take it personally if you were the lst post before she decided to chime in. My Lord, Elizabeth and I have disagreed on many issues over the years. But we have respected each others beliefs through all these years. I only get upset at anonymous postings when they are degrading and hateful. Doesn't add much to the dialouge.
Our Federal government is very corrupt. Is there a country anywhere in this world that doesn't have a corrupt government? The executive branch of our federal government is completely corrupt, bought and paid for by large corporations. I also wonder if the Judicial branch of the government isn't also corrupt; after all, the Supreme Court justices were all appointed by the chief executive. The legislative brach is mostly corrupt. I'm sure that there are a few honest legislators out there but I am also sure that most of then are corrupt.
Can we correct the corruption using the electoral system that is currently in place? Probably not. I think the only things that will ever change it are a revolution or a nuclear war. After these things happen (and I say after not if), will the corruption be ended? I doubt it, because as the saying goes, "absolute power corrupts absolutely".
I think you're right. And as long as the American people are corrupt we will always have a corrupt government, no matter what its form.
Stu: sobering observations that I can not argue with. Kind of a hopeless feeling if you really ponder on it too much.
Richard, that's why I don't ponder too much on politics. Politics and religion were both invented eons ago by those with wealth and power, so they could control the masses and maintain and increase their wealth and power.
2:46pm- Anyone out there who can argue this observation?
Not me! I'd guess that most organized, institutionalized religion of all kinds has always been a sham, a cheap and confused imitation of real spirituality, which is something those with worldly power can never control.
Of course there are always a few honestly spiritual people in every religion it seems, and probably every religion has bits and pieces of truth and spirituality, but living, loving spirit is something that can never be packaged, bought and sold.
Of course the U.S. Government is all about the illegal drugs - just ask the Cocaine Cowboy George W. Bush!
Bush snorts cocaine off the Oval Office desk with his girlfriend Condosleeza.
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