Is Destroying The Poppy Fields In Afghanistan Not Like Coming Here And Destroying Ford Motors?

Question

After all those 4x4s are bad news

Answer 1

The poppy fields are profitable, and produce a product people want. Unlike Ford.

Answer 2

Quite the contrary is happening, once again Afghanistan is the worlds leader in Heroin production.
Its ironic, prior to our invasion the Taliban had but all destroyed the trade, one might see a connection wouldn't they?

Once best known for opium, the active ingredient in heroin, Afghanistan has been working its way up the production ladder. Now it's the world's largest producer and exporter of heroin. Clandestine labs churn out so much product that the average heroin price in Western Europe tumbled to $75 a gram from $251 in 1990, adjusted for inflation, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

In Hamburg, Germany, a single hypodermic shot of Afghan heroin goes for just three euros, or about one-third the price a decade ago. "Even 13-year-old children have enough money to get into serious trouble," says Mathias Engelmann, a police detective in nearby Schacht-Audorf.

The business is also spreading disease and addiction in Central Asia and Russia, where traffickers have ramped up a smuggling route to the heart of Europe. Roughly a third of Afghanistan's drug exports go through this so-called northern route, supplementing the more-established routes through Iran and Pakistan.

In Afghanistan itself, the heroin trade jeopardizes the nation's fragile democracy, which is struggling to consolidate since U.S.-led forces ousted the extremist Taliban and their al Qaeda allies in 2001. The drug industry dwarfs honest business activity. In 2005, Afghanistan earned $2.7 billion from opium exports, which amounts to 52 percent of the country's gross domestic product of $5.2 billion, according to UNODC estimates. "You probably can't build democracy in a country where narcotics are such a large part of the economy," says John Carnevale, a former senior counternarcotics official in the first Bush administration and in the Clinton administration.

Answer 3

The Taliban have been deeply puritanical of their faith. Bush even gave them $forty 3 million to do away with poppies in August '01, and that they cleared off all yet 2% of the poppies from Afghanistan. The invasion delivered lower back the opium/heroin production like loopy, and besides, there is not the rest rewarding adequate for the farmers to proceed to exist. whilst they get something extra effectual to enhance, whilst they get a respectable governmental and economic infrastructure rebuilt, in line with risk they are going to flow from "failed state" status.

Answer 4

The US government can't tax the "product" made from poppy; therefore, it is bad and must be destroyed. If poppy could somehow be converted to oil, then it probably stands a good chance of redemption.

Answer 5

Actually that's one thing the Taliban did manage - to completely stop production of the heroin poppy.

Afghanistan only restarted cultivation after it was liberated.

Answer 6

Excellent question......but Ford Motors is a Legal Business.
Drug Dealing is NOT!

Answer 7

unfortunately, because of the revenue the poppy fields create there, it is like coming here and destroying Wal Mart.

Answer 8

The reason why herion is illigal is because it would wreck our economy. Working class people must work for their pleasures in this world - , not pay 5 bucks for all the pleasure they can get.

How would the entertainment industry compete etc?

My point being when drugs "are" the economy and not ruining the economy, it is perfectly fine.

Answer 9

No. Ford motors is destroying itself because of premium Union labor.

Answer 10

Thet should encourage the Afghanis to grow cannabis instead of opium, a lot less harmful and just as profitable.