I didn't find anything extra ordinarily out of place? ?
He is referring to the chart in post 2822 in 2001 production was extremely low.
yes...but look at the years before and after 2001!!!
The Taliban destoryed the Poppy just about totally eradicated in Febuary of 2001.
This was before the US invaded of course before tinfoiled minion conspiracy theorists thought hairy chimpanzees in toga costumes, dialysis machines and wheel chairs attacked us on 9/11 out of a cave while chewing on tree bark and drinking their own urine.
From October in 2001 after invasion, support, resources, security and hard cold cash from the US Military is when production skyrocketed and thats what made the little production shown on the chart. Thanks Bush! Mission accomplished!
This link is hard to read but its from 2/2001 by the Pittburgh Post Gazette reporting on the eradication of Opium by the Taliban.
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Of course, CIA Karzi's brother was given authority to restore order...here is some of the history about our CIA druglord.
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US and CIA have a long history with opium in afghanistan, the Golden Cresent drug trade was launched in the early 80's at NATO has a history of involvement as well. The CIA laundered drug money to finance the mujahideen which was revealed in Iran Contra and the Bank of Commerce and Credit. The British who have hundreds of years of experience being the worlds top dog drug dealers (Now the title goes to Obama!) had some leadership involvement as well.
Eradication of Opium means war. Restore "law and order." Drug dealing Washington and NATO dont like it when the dirty money supply is disturbed. They love that Obamamoney!
But hey, if your an afghan terrorist farmer, Washington will give you resources, security and fresh hard USA cash, but we will offer you a choice to grow mint leaves, squash and cotton. If you dont comply with the right choice, you are offered continued resources, security and USA hard cash! What a choice!
If your American and have a 1 poppy plant in your front yard your choice is to have the DEA kick your door down, your banks seized, your property taken, your nose bloody on the floor and you get to play a game of not dropping the bar of soap in the showers.
Anyways there is much much more to the story, but the whole War on Drugs is a crock, a complete failure and the biggest waste of tax dollars in human history. A war that is impossible to win over millions of years, but is only fueled by criminalization driving the black markets and empowering criminal syndicates (top dog being governments.)
Think how 1.5 trillion dollars in the last decade can been put into health care as drug use is a medical problem, not a criminal problem. What if we used that money to give our troops medical care instead of hiding them in hospital basements to save money and letting them rot to death in extreme pain for months and months with no treatment. Government has no moral authority, they are not moral. You can not entrust them to force morality when they are the root corrupt evildoers in society.