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2003-06-22 Afghanistan

Afghanistan regains its title as worldâs biggest heroin dealer

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Posted by Steve White 2003-06-22 1:40:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wonder what would happen if the administration decided to add all the ODs, junkies, and associated drugs into the costs of the WOT.

I wonder what would happen if they decided to expand the patriot act to include heroin traders and dealers as terrorist organizations.

Posted by Penguin 6/22/03 12:03:56 PM|| 6/22/03 12:03:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 As long as there is a demand each time you close a source of drugs the only thing you do is having the price raise and thus get other people to enter the trade. So the only way is to reduce the demand ie round junkies and tell them "desintoxicate or we send you to the fire squad".

Posted by JFM 6/22/03 1:57:18 AM|| 6/22/03 1:57:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Local Afghans say that bags of heroin are used in lieu of currency in some parts of the lawless countryside where - more than two years after the Taliban was toppled - the US-backed interim government of Hamid Karzai has failed to establish control."

More than two years? Not according to Earth calendars.

Posted by Arthur Fleischman 6/22/03 7:34:11 AM|| [www.untoldmillions.com/weblog_page.htm] 6/22/03 7:34:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 After the war, Britain assumed responsibility for co-ordinating the international effort to crush Afghanistan's opium trade.

Heh! Not such a good deal for Blair. I'm surprised he allowed us to dump that lost-cause on him. Maybe it was a principled move rather than a political one.

Dumping it on the British was smooth political move on the part of the Bush administration, though. It was becoming apparent before/during the war, that the left was gearing up (NPR, the Vanity Fair piece, etc.), to try to make the Heroin trade an issue for name-calling and the blame game. IE: with all of our technology, sattelites, intelligence, and spec ops, why can't the Bush administration reduce the Heroin trade?

Somebody in our government sidestepped that one nicely by getting the British to take responsibility. Great idea, since Blair, being from the left, won't have to suffer the politcal harping that that the Bush administration would no doubt have endured from the "quagmire" that is sure to be the result of this issue.

Posted by Becky 6/22/03 10:04:11 AM|| 6/22/03 10:04:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Penguin, it's already done. What do we get from the war on drugs? Jack shit.

The only way to end it is to legalize it and flood the market, then superimpose heavy taxation on the remaining players.

Posted by Brian 6/22/03 2:42:11 PM|| 6/22/03 2:42:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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