Fausty's Libertarian Blog: Why are we in Afghanistan?

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Why are we in Afghanistan?

5 comments:

Freewoman of England said...: They are there to make sure the Opium is grown and sold to the usual buyers.

90% of the worlds heroin is grown in Afghanistan

When the Taliban were in power the crop went down, and that caused the people who usually buy it to lose money

Thats why the taliban are being fought, First the USSR tried to stop it now the Taliban tried to stop it

The fact is that the same people behind the Opium wars in China are involved It goes right to the top of society to HM govt

History teaches us stuff Why then do we ignore it?

Spoils of Empire, etc; 28 July 2010 23:56
Trooper Thompson said...: "The fact is that the same people behind the Opium wars in China are involved It goes right to the top of society to HM govt"

Very true. The Anglo-American Establishment rides again.; 29 July 2010 00:18
banned said...: It struck me as odd that it was taking so long to train the proto Afghan army when self evidently Afghanistan has provided capable warriors for centuries.
As the second vid makes clear, the west are recruiting the wrong guys, 'delinquents' and junkies.; 29 July 2010 00:49
thestoker said...: Fausty I'd keep a close eye on the old codger from the Habsburg Texan lands.; 30 July 2010 01:01
stono said...: Freewoman of England is spot-on. Opium production results in drug "crime" in the USA, whereupon the drug abuser, although harming no-one but himself, ends up in prison. These prisons are private businesses operating at profit, with share prices going up depending on the number of inmates. In prison a man is forced to work at 25c per hour; if he refuses he's sent into solitary confinement. Government contracts eg for military kit and for private businesses, eg printing t-shirts, are given to prisons, which make a lot of money based upon what amounts to slave labour. So, by restricting opium, the Taleban were hurting "recruitment" of the prison workforce. The USA holds 20% of the world's prisoners in her 5% of the world's populace, mostly for the victimless crime of drug-abuse, and also for trivial offences under the third strike system. ie your third offence, which may be as trivial as stealing a bar of chocolate, gets the State a cheap worker for 25 years.; 30 July 2010 14:08

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