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2017-11-24 Afghanistan

US strikes on Taliban opium labs won't work, say Afghan farmers

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-11-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Roundup. KC 10. Some assembly required.

Posted by gorb 2017-11-24 01:24|| 2017-11-24 01:24|| Front Page Top

#2 "The government must provide jobs so people can feed their families and survive," said poppy farmer Haji Daoud in Sangin, Helmand. "It should provide security and infrastructure."

Dope dealers don't want 'jobs,' they want porous borders and free access to public markets.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-24 02:23|| 2017-11-24 02:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Ha! Ain't nobody that would fall for that!

Posted by gorb 2017-11-24 03:54|| 2017-11-24 03:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Note the squealing. That tells ya the piggies are hurting

Posted by Frank G 2017-11-24 09:08|| 2017-11-24 09:08|| Front Page Top

#5 If factories are closed and businesses are gone, then how will they provide food for their families?

Ask me if I care.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-24 13:28|| 2017-11-24 13:28|| Front Page Top

#6 How do you dry up the demand for opiates in the U.S.?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-24 13:42|| 2017-11-24 13:42|| Front Page Top

#7 There will always be a demand for opiates and there will always be evil men eager to supply opiates for profit. That's why I don't give a rat's ass about the hearts and minds of poppy growers or how they're going to feed their families. Screw 'em, bomb 'em, poison 'em and then leave them to the tender mercies of their beloved Taliban. Never let anyone from Afghanistan or any of the countries that border it into this country.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-24 15:02|| 2017-11-24 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Never let anyone from Afghanistan or any of the countries that border it into this country.
Tell that to the federal judges who keep obstructing the efforts of POTUS to do just that. Or better yet, impeach the SOB's.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-11-24 15:30|| 2017-11-24 15:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Last year a new rail line was inaugurated from Afghanistan to China, greatly shortening the time to get goods to Shanghai. The USPS (as best I can tell) will deliver all packages from foreign sources even if they have not passed any customs inspection, and even if the post office has no information about what the package contains or whence it originated. It is far cheaper to ship parcels from China to a US address than it is to ship parcels within the US. It is known that the deadly drug carfentanyl is being shipped into the USA this way.
Doesn't anyone see this as a problem?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-11-24 15:37|| 2017-11-24 15:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Carfentanil seems to be a big problem wherever it is coming from.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-24 15:54|| 2017-11-24 15:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Some idiot must have written that. You don't get opium from poppy seeds. You have to slit the poppy head and collect the liquid.

Posted by DonM 2017-11-24 17:07|| 2017-11-24 17:07|| Front Page Top

#12 yep

Posted by Frank G 2017-11-24 20:04|| 2017-11-24 20:04|| Front Page Top

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