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2023-08-13 Afghanistan

Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-13 06:32|| || Front Page|| [25 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 Are the people at Zero Clue that stupid, or do they think that we are?

The Taliban method is simple, they just kill anyone who doesn't do as told. They probably kill a whole family just to reinforce their point.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2023-08-13 09:07|| 2023-08-13 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 It’s been reported here that they protect the opium gangs, it being a longstanding income stream for them. So when they tell the farmers to plant opium, it happens; when they tell the opium farmers not to plant opium, that happens, too.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-08-13 10:01|| 2023-08-13 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 You could say that U S. Sanctions caused famine. So the Taliban had to brutally force opium growers to switch to wheat so the populace won't starve.

That's what the article says.

Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2023-08-13 12:15|| 2023-08-13 12:15|| Front Page Top

#4 It's a double bonus, new source of wheat for China to replace lost Ukranian production and limiting availability of heroin pushes more to users fentanyl

Posted by jefe101 2023-08-13 13:29|| 2023-08-13 13:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Stalin is wearing a black turban. Implementing a government directed economy run by Koran memorizing negates where all the infrastructure has collapsed will work just great.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-13 13:57|| 2023-08-13 13:57|| Front Page Top

#6 "This raises serious questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years."

Heck, I have serious questions about the seriousness of almost every U. S. government action over the past 20 years.

Posted by Tom 2023-08-13 14:11|| 2023-08-13 14:11|| Front Page Top

#7 They just don't need the Opium production any more, now that they have control.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-08-13 18:06|| 2023-08-13 18:06|| Front Page Top

#8 A photo of 3 turbans waving sticks and the opium crop is eradicated. Miraculous.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2023-08-13 18:38|| 2023-08-13 18:38|| Front Page Top

#9 I seem to recall that some years ago the warehouses were bursting with product, part of the reason why the Af-Pak opium gangs had switched to refining opium to make heroin — the other part being less bulk and therefore greater portability. But if the warehouses are still overfull, that’s a good reason to pause production until stores are reduced a bit, and to get credit in the outside world for doing good works at a time when the Taliban desperately want to be recognized as a proper government...

Posted by trailing wife 2023-08-13 20:35|| 2023-08-13 20:35|| Front Page Top

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