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Terror Networks
The Taliban Is Tapped-Out
2014-02-05
...many of the comments are worth the visit...
A nice roundup by Zero Hedge. A hopeful thought for the region, if true. Nonetheless, according to the New York Times, we are awash in heroin.
If Zero Hedge is on to the truth (insert kilogram-sized tablet of salt), why is Karzai playing smoochie-face with the Talibs?
Posted by:Uncle Phester

#4  NSA have to pay for those server farms to watch us?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-02-05 12:55  

#3  Heard on CBS News last night that all this ultra pure, ultra potent heroin is coming from Mexico. Well, it might be coming into this country from across the Mexican border but that doesn't mean the original source isn't Afghanistan. If, as we've been told, Afghanistan is now the world's leading heroin producer, somebody has to have been making a helluva lotta money over there. Dunno who but seeing as how the poppies grew while NATO occupied the country it looks kinda suspicious. Maybe it wasn't the Taliban after all.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-02-05 12:04  

#2  You never had to 'destroy' the Taliban, just reduce enough that other competing interests (tribes, power brokers, etc) in the region can keep it more than busy just to stay in existence. One of the key parts of that is to undermine the Pak Intel service across the border who provide cover for the organization.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-02-05 09:03  

#1  Somehow, Champ will take credit for this; did he manage to plant the story?
Posted by: Bobby   2014-02-05 08:57  

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