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Posted By JC_Nelson 4 months, 1 week ago in Political OpinionThe US has recently bombed poppy fields in Afghanistan as a show of force in our war on drugs. In the process we are doing far more than just choking the Taliban's cash flow. Is this really the right direction the war should be going?
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Candida4 months, 1 week ago
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FTA: "I understand the need to destroy the product, but we are going a little over the top with it."
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Well, I don't understand why the crop has to be destroyed. Millions of people around the world, including me, enjoy all kinds of dishes with poppy seeds, and in those countries where most of these people live, poppies are an ordinary crop. I grew up in a country where anybody could grow them, but opium or heroin addiction was almost unknown. Health care workers sometimes got addicted to morphine because they had easy access to it. The problem is not with the product but how it is used by some people. Morphine is a very important medicine that is in demand around the world because it's a powerful pain killer. As the article points out:
"The people running the farms are just those trying to make a living and selling poppy makes a decent amount of money and there is a constant demand."
If the US has a drug problem, then it should perhaps deal with that at home instead of destroying other people's livelihoods.
The only justification anyone can offer for this blatant abuse of the people of Afghanistan is that "about 50 percent of the money generated from opium and heroin sales make it back to the Taliban."
If the US doesn't want to financially support the Taliban than its people should not buy the opium/morphine/heroin produced in Afghanistan. It's always a good idea to tidy up around one's own home instead of destroying other people's yards because they have a few dandelions.-
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JC_Nelson4 months, 1 week ago
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"Well, I don't understand why the crop has to be destroyed. Millions of people around the world, including me, enjoy all kinds of dishes with poppy seeds..."
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Afghanistan does not produce much of the poppy that is used for food actually. You can grow poppy in the US, just under regulations, that obviously do not exist in Afghanistan. The market cost of poppy seed rich meals will not be altered by this.
"If the US doesn't want to financially support the Taliban than its people should not buy the opium/morphine/heroin produced in Afghanistan."
Farmers saying no to selling to Taliban would be committing suicide. The US does not buy from them as far as I know. If there are any sales to the US I would suspect them to be illegal and have nothing to do with the government.
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nostalgia4 months, 1 week ago
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I don't think we should not be at war — we should have just stayed there and could be done with it by now
What alternative universe is this author from?
We are never going to be "done" in Afghanistan
We will be withdrawing from there like we did in Vietnam after losing countless lives in a war we can never win
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