"But according to Mansfield’s estimates, the current opium ban has cost the Afghan economy $1.3 billion and 450,000 jobs at the farm-level alone, and that doesn’t include the high economic losses downstream."
Give me a break! After what drugs have cost America and Europe, I'm supposed to care what happens to these growers and harvesters in Afghanistan? Well I don't. America First.
EDIT: I failed to add that opiate addiction killed two of my nieces (both of whom had daughters of their own) and has made one of my nephew's life a living hell. The damage opiates have done just in my family circle far outweighs any concern I might have for medieval, benighted Afghanistan!
We were bombing Afghanistan to ensure poppy production, not stop it. Rothschilds own the opium trade worldwide, and they also own The United States of America.
The CIA/USA invaded Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 to reestablish the opium production that the Taliban had eliminated. Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11 nor did Osama bin Laden as he said a couple of times before he died from kidney failure shortly after 9/11. The Mossad, CIA, and MI6 were the primary perpetrators of 9/11.
The CIA/USA did once bomb a country for producing opium. The country was Laos, the most headily bombed country in the world, because they were interfering in the CIA/USA opium racket in Thailand. Hollywood even did a movie about the Thailand opium racket, Air America. Bombing Laos was the real reason the USA started the Vietnam War. Based on first hand info from about 5-years ago from a Laotian, the cluster bombs the B-52's dropped on Laos are still killing and maiming people, mostly children.
"But according to Mansfield’s estimates, the current opium ban has cost the Afghan economy $1.3 billion and 450,000 jobs at the farm-level alone, and that doesn’t include the high economic losses downstream."
Give me a break! After what drugs have cost America and Europe, I'm supposed to care what happens to these growers and harvesters in Afghanistan? Well I don't. America First.
EDIT: I failed to add that opiate addiction killed two of my nieces (both of whom had daughters of their own) and has made one of my nephew's life a living hell. The damage opiates have done just in my family circle far outweighs any concern I might have for medieval, benighted Afghanistan!
we've been bombing Afghani farmers for 20 years straight and now we're supposed to care about their wellbeing??
We were bombing Afghanistan to ensure poppy production, not stop it. Rothschilds own the opium trade worldwide, and they also own The United States of America.
The CIA/USA invaded Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 to reestablish the opium production that the Taliban had eliminated. Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11 nor did Osama bin Laden as he said a couple of times before he died from kidney failure shortly after 9/11. The Mossad, CIA, and MI6 were the primary perpetrators of 9/11.
The CIA/USA did once bomb a country for producing opium. The country was Laos, the most headily bombed country in the world, because they were interfering in the CIA/USA opium racket in Thailand. Hollywood even did a movie about the Thailand opium racket, Air America. Bombing Laos was the real reason the USA started the Vietnam War. Based on first hand info from about 5-years ago from a Laotian, the cluster bombs the B-52's dropped on Laos are still killing and maiming people, mostly children.