drugs are part of americas economy..it creates jobs and wipes out minorities.through drug use and sales (illegally) it makes jobs for police ,judges ,lawyers, jails, rehabs,funeral homes, and side effects are aids, hepititis, crime.it goes on and on. so if were at war and our military are in a country producing heroin .then why is production going up? my hunch is because thats why were there????does any 1 else see that?
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2006-11-28 03:19:52 · 5 answers · asked by rkurdek 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
rKurdek. I think your assessment is right on. Retaliation against the supposed 9-11 attackers was a mere pretext for U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan's drug business. The Taliban had virtually eliminated poppy production in Afghanistan prior to the U.S. invasion. Opium production is a multi-billion dollar enterprise, and you can be sure that America's criminal element is significantly involved in production, sales, and distribution throughout the world, and particularly in the U.S. By criminal element, I include many politicians at the federal level. A spaced-out citizenry is easy to control. Ask the British who operated China's Opium Dens. Another example of heavy handedness by the U.S. was the elimination of Noreiga in Panama. He had decided to no longer be America's middle-man drug distributor and go it alone. You see where it got him.
2006-11-28 03:46:30 · answer #1 · answered by Misanthrope 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the increase has more to do with the fact that the taliban is no longer there to keep such tight control over the opium trade. we've run so many of them off, but we aren't taking their place overseeing the opium business. that's not what we're there for. i definitely believe the drug trade is condoned secretly by nearly every country in the world, and i'm sure there are americans profiting from the increase in opium from afghanistan, some covertly, and some overtly, but i don't think that was the main reason for going there, and i have a hard time believing that the government itself is involved. i think it's more a case of individuals getting involved, though i'm sure some use their government positions to their advantage.
2006-11-28 12:46:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you propose doing about it? Bring back the Taliban?
2006-11-28 11:29:23 · answer #3 · answered by namsaev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so in other words we need the taliban, to keep the drugdealers of the streets
2006-11-28 23:30:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did you get your figures?
2006-11-28 11:25:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋