jykkE, you are 100% INCORRECT! It isn't about geography (what is closer to what).....it's about GEOPOLITCAL INTERESTS. The Arabs turn the other cheek for whatever C.I.A and the U.S. are doing to them (not neccesarily bad things like torture but also shit like releasing known jihadist/terrorists for negociations which happen all the time, THE REASON OSAMA BIN LADEN WILL NEVER BE COUGHT, b/c the U.S. knows it will be the end of relations with the Arab/Muslim/Middle Eastern countries) and for that in exchange they trade not just their local produce heroin, but also guns, ammunition.
Geography has a lot to do with it. It's much harder for afghanistan to smuggle heroin into America, which is why the south americas dominate the trade here in the US.
As for "arabs turn the cheek" you can't exactly just make a comment like that, and in my opinion, it's quite racist. Not all arabs view America the same - most of them like America, and many hate us with a passion. America does not release terrorists 'all the time', please post sources for such outlandish claims. You can't just make stuff like this up dude, you have to post sources if what you are saying is not commonly accepted as fact.
As a policy, America does not release terrorists if they know they are active. There have been plenty of times we have released terrorists unknowingly - it's pretty well known that many people who are caught on the field of battle in Iraq/Afghanistan and are sent to Gitmo, only to be released due to lack of evidence, come back later. America is one of the few countries who has a pretty strict policy in regards to hostage negotiation, and won't release terrorists at all.
You're comment about Osama bin Laden is also ridiculous. America does not care about the foreign relations with countries that harbor terrorists, like Iran. The current administration is quite different than the Clinton Administration - before we tried to kiss everyone's ass, and look what good that did us. Clinton tried to get everyone to like us, and that just was seen as weakness in the eyes of hostile groups. Bush realizes that good, democratic nations will like us and invariably hostile nations will dislike us.
As you can tell, Bush could not care less about the opinion of countries like Iran. We've killed many of the top leaders of al-Qaeda, but you think we won't kill the Number 1 because it will hurt public opinion? That makes no sense...
The American government does not buy heroin either... That's a ludicrous claim that's been debunked over and over by private groups. We don't buy guns or ammo from anyone else either, we already have superior technology for that and we don't need faulty guns from other countries. If anything, we sell lots of our older stuff, and sometimes even to nations that eventually become hostile towards us (though we don't sell to nations currently hostile).
If you/anybody here knows ANYTHING about wars is that WARS ARE NECCESSARY FOR A COUNTRY'S ECONOMY and STABILITY. The reason why wars basically NEED to happen every once in a while, ALSO the reason for the 9/11 'terrorist attacks' (the U.S. has Arabs working for them all over the world...so it's not hard for the states to hire some 'dirty byzantine Arabs' to take the blame.....after all the states was plunging in economic down fall before 9/11). Also the reason Pearl Harbour was started, also by the American army itself! THESE ARE KNOWN FACTS and I'm not pulling them of out my ass, if u look for them you will see. The Americans are the leading superpower, they have known for years from years and years of scientifc studies (even by Nazi doctors) that the method of 'killing your own people 'for the greater good' and TELEVISING IT or making it PUBLIC like the radios in WW2' is the best and most effecient method of deception and propaganda on a national even international level, at least for the common folk.
Wars do not stabilize or help the economy. It's funny how so many people say the Iraq War is ruining our economy, and then say WW2 brought us out of the depression.
Fact of the matter as it stands, is that the Iraq War is pretty cheap. While costs can seem high, the military is always expensive, and costs pretty much the same whether we are in war or not. Bullets, missiles, rockets, all have to be thrown away if they aren't used in a couple years, and soldiers have to be paid. As it stands our military expenditures are very low compared to our GDP. The only reason costs are somewhat higher right now, is because Clinton demilitarized, which was pretty bad since we had to purchase it all back.
You need to have a large military regardless of whether you are in war or not.
Wars don't need to happen 'once in a while', and in general they do not help the economy at all. Every year GM spends building humvees is less resources spent in making domestic cars for a large profit. The states were not in an economic downfall before 9/11 either.
Pearl harbor was not started by America either... We tried a noninterventionist policy in the 30s and 40s and it failed miserably, and we came to realize that militaristic countries need to be stopped pre-eminently. The reason we are in the middle east right now is to stop it from becoming a large problem like Japan and Germany became in ww2 and ww1.
This idea we employ "arabs all over the world" is ridiculous dude. You are making completely asinine and racist comments. Arabs are just people like everyone else.
It is also a WELL known fact (look it up) that the U.S navy experimented in the early 70's with making ships litteraly dissapear, not from radars but litteraly in real life.
this is not a well known fact, stop making stuff up. The navy made a lot of stealth technology, and continues to do so. We don't just send 'shadow ships' everywhere, there is a record of everything. Sorry, but stuff like Tom Clancy isn't true.
We don't need wars to help our economy, wars actually hurt the economy. However, the Iraq War as an expenditure is very small (yes, it's billions of dollars every day, but in the scale of things it is quite small). We spend money on a military whether we are in war or not.
I'm an economics major, so I know what I'm talking about. You can't just make comments about how good our economy is out of thin air. There are very real indicators of our economy, such as GDP. Right now, for example, our economy is extremely strong. I know the newspapers keep saying doom and gloom, but it is totally irresponsible of them. A recession means two fiscal periods of negative GDP growth, and we haven't had negative growth since 9/11.
I had a friend visit Vancouver and he found china white very easy. Very high quality Asian heroin.
This comment is ridiculous... you can't tell heroin is Chinese simply because it was white. Most likely what he found was Colombian heroin. Asian heroin is the same as Colombian heroin dude.
And by the way, China White refers to a brand of heroin imported from Europe that was processed in China, that was smuggled by the Mafia, in the 50's and 60's. There is no more "China White". We do not get heroin anymore from the Golden Triangle (asian producers). We don't get heroin from the golden crescent either. We get it from the Americas.
You can't just say your friends experience is proof of anything, anecdotal reports are hardly accountable as evidence or proof. You're friend most likely got Colombian heroin that was white.
He talked to people that were there and they all said the dope in the area came from Asia
Right, and my dealer tells me that all his pills are triple stacked 8)
I don't know what type of powdered dope you've had. The dope in the northeastern US will last at least 4 hours. Even insufflated.
I'm sure the NE dope users will attest to that.
(And don't come back with the "oh, it's the adulterants in your dope" argument.)
Powdered heroin lasts significantly shorter than tar heroin. I don't know what you mean by being dismissive towards whatever argument of mine you don't like, I was simply pointing out that tar heroin could be considered 'adulterated' with morphine and MAMs, since it isn't just heroin as the active ingredient, whereas with powder heroin, heroin is the main active ingredient.
In my experience, powdered dope lasts about 1-2 hours at peak levels. Tar heroin, the high is stronger for much longer because of all the morphines and MAMs in it. If you want to say powdered dope lasts 4 hours, fine, but my point is that tar lasts much longer.
