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2017-11-23 Afghanistan

US Military Opens New Front in Afghan Air War

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-11-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 What's the deal with the Raptor? They're putting hours on the air frame to drop bombs on these clowns?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2017-11-23 03:57|| 2017-11-23 03:57|| Front Page Top

#2 ...experts are warning of the risk of alienating the local population.

Them locals aren't your friends now. No more than Germans or Japanese '43-'45.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-11-23 05:06|| 2017-11-23 05:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Them locals aren't your friends now Like "progressives" here in the US, them locals don't even know you, but they hate you incandescently. They should be bombed accordingly. Anyone who whines about the "opiate crisis" in America but also whines about destroying poppy fields is a hypocrite. Yes, I know it's mostly OxyContin and fentanyl from China causing the problems here now, but the beloved progressive dogma of "equality" insists that old style opium be considered part of the problem too.

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-11-23 09:06|| 2017-11-23 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Afghanistan’s Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade

Posted by Skidmark 2017-11-23 11:57|| 2017-11-23 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 We're worried about alienating heroin dealers?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-23 12:28|| 2017-11-23 12:28|| Front Page Top

#6 We are worried about alienating the so-called "civilians" that help the dealers work the crops. It's a huge industry and provides lots of "jobs" that put bread on the table for many families.

What else could they actually do to replace these crops and provide for almost as many families in a more socially conscious way? Dunno.

Posted by gorb 2017-11-23 14:21|| 2017-11-23 14:21|| Front Page Top

#7 IIRC the 8th Air Force was hell on German agriculture [given how unprecision their precision bombing was].

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-11-23 15:46|| 2017-11-23 15:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Not condoning the opium crop trade, but wondering what crap can they replace poppy with that makes almost or as much as poppy? That can also grow in Afghanistan.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-11-23 21:37|| 2017-11-23 21:37|| Front Page Top

#9 I hate this spell checker. "Crop" not "crap".

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-11-23 21:39|| 2017-11-23 21:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Don't care if they are alienated.fentanyl and oxy are not the big problems, heroin is because it's the same high an alot cheaper.

Posted by Chris 2017-11-23 22:52|| 2017-11-23 22:52|| Front Page Top

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