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2006-06-08 Afghanistan

European think tank sez coalition losing Helmand province

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-06-08 00:51|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...poppy farmers know their illegal trade is threatened by the foreigners"

Bing Bong! this is key "illegal trade". We should kill every grower of this poison I don't care if they are "just doing it to feed their wife and kids" most of this stuff ends up in Eastern and Western Europe. It's not 'muslims" taking it.

"Is this your poppy field" Bang. How hard it that? Smack funds jihad. Kill the bastards.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-08 01:39|| 2006-06-08 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Supporting the Taliban show's what a desperate situation the people there are in. Any sign that the west is improving things? No.

Posted by Doogl comments 2006-06-08 05:52|| www.jam.org.pk]">[www.jam.org.pk] 2006-06-08 05:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Nice to know the propoganda wing of the ISI monitors Rantburg.

Posted by Fordesque 2006-06-08 12:07|| 2006-06-08 12:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Scanning the website, Senlis Council seems to be a pro opium legalization group. In their view, the right thing to do is to run away and regulate poppy production. Senlis does not explain how they plan to enforce regulation if poppy production comes under the control of islamists who want to destroy western civilization.

Posted by ed 2006-06-08 12:43|| 2006-06-08 12:43|| Front Page Top

#5 They'll have their jones on for a while, but once they link up with their supplier they won't feel a thing.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-08 12:57|| 2006-06-08 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 dont know who these guys are.

The assertions that coalition military is acting aggressively in the province, and that lots of locals hate the coalition (and the Kharzai govt) are not necessarily in contradiction.

It would certainly make sense to provide economic reconstruction aid at the same time we eradicate poppies. If we cant manage to speed up the aid, it might make sense to slow the poppie eradication.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-06-08 13:19|| 2006-06-08 13:19|| Front Page Top

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