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Originally Posted by myrrh
I am not sure if you are aware but the Taliban eradicated the production of poppy from their country while they were ruling. Interestingly enough, since the US 'liberated' Afghanistan, the whole production is back in action. And it is even mentioned here that the Taliban is once again using the money from the poppy to fund itself. I can't help but take this as an absolute lie put out by the US government to brainwash the people into making the Taliban look like the 'badguys'. |
So then saying you're going to wander around the afghani/paki border with false documents to kick a heroin habit is more like saying you're going to a ku klux klan rally because you're feeling like socializing, or going to a gay bath house to take a shower.
What happened to this guy is reprehensible, and is a drop in the slop bucket of the moral standing that the u.s. has shown in Iraq and afghanistan. but I really get Rog's ire.
Regarding the opium trade. The "islamist" growers may not be taliban, but they are still thugs running as drug lords in tandem with the CIA. And I suppose that the taliban not being part of this means they deserver a perfunctory three second golf clap. clap clap clap.