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U.S. strikes on Taliban opium labs won't work, say Afghan farmers

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U.S. strikes on Taliban opium labs won't work, say Afghan farmers
Mohammad Stanekzai, Girish Gupta
Reuters
November 23rd, 2017

ASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan/KABUL (Reuters) - As U.S. and Afghan forces pound Taliban drug factories this week, farmers in the country’s largest opium producing-province and narcotics experts say the strategy just repeats previous failed efforts to stamp out the trade.

U.S. Army General John Nicholson, who heads NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, announced on Monday a new strategy of attacking opium factories, saying he wanted to hit the Taliban “where it hurts, in their narcotics financing”.

Critics say the policy risks further civilian casualties and turning large swathes of the population dependent on poppy cultivation against the Afghan government.

“The Taliban will not be affected by this as much as ordinary people,” said Mohammad Nabi, a poppy farmer in Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand, the heartland of opium production.

“Farmers are not growing poppies for fun. If factories are closed and businesses are gone, then how will they provide food for their families?”

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Oh jesus.
The little people always fucking suffer. The war on drugs is just a massive selective war on poor people.
 
I can't believe how we make the same mistakes over and over.

The "Fent" dealers will smile as they make more profits and kill more innocents. Untold people will starve in Afghanistan, and hate us in the process.

How can we lose with such strategy, right?
 
I can't believe how we make the same mistakes over and over.

Simple answer: it's not a mistake, it's deliberate. The people behind these wars feed on conflict.
Killing is their livelihood. Without conflict and the injustice that creates it, they have no purpose and the world has no need for them. It's a crossover between the military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex, with a whole lot of strategically deliberate acts thrown into the mix to further their various agendas.
If the US had any interest in stopping afghan opium production, you'd think theor occupation of the country for the last 15 years might have done something other than produce record harvests of poppy.

It's all a load of bullshit.
 
its always about keeping the next generation sad enough to go to war and die because they hate

the beggining of that is to kill their families when they are young.

GO USA!!!!
 
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