Friday - October 10, 2008
Another Half Solution
NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to $100 million a year into the coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters.
“With regard to counter-narcotics ... ISAF can act in concert with the Afghans against facilities and facilitators supporting the insurgency,” said NATO spokesman James Appathurai, referring to the NATO force.
The United States had been pushing for NATO’s 50,000 troops to take on a counter-narcotics role to hit back at the Taliban, whose increasing attacks have cast doubt on the prospects of a Western military victory in Afghanistan.
However, Germany, Spain and others were wary and their doubts led to NATO imposing conditions on the anti-drug mandate for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
Troops will only be able to act against drug facilities if authorized by their own governments; only drug producers deemed to be supporting the insurgency will be targeted; and the operation must be designed to be temporary — lasting only until the Afghan security forces are deemed able to take on the task.
Afghanistan supplies 90 percent of the world’s heroin, a trade worth billions of dollars.
Until now, responsibility for dealing with the problem has lain with the Afghan police, but NATO commanders believe the fledgling force cannot cope with the problem. They say the time has come for NATO to move against the drug barons.
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Thursday stressed the need for action.
“Our guys are killed by the weapons bought by the Taliban, financed by drugs money,” de Hoop Scheffer said.
The War On Terror is inextricably linked to the War On Drugs. Not just in Afghanistan, but all across Central and South America, in Africa and Southern Asia too. The connections are blatant and are very easy to find with just the slightest bit of looking. And while drugs may be against pisslam, selling them to us infidels is A-Ok. If they can split hairs that fine, then so can we. All drug producers and carriers are therefore terrorists. Kill them.
Burn down every field you find. Every. Single. One. Arrest the farmers. Or just shoot them. And raze the villages if they give you any lip. Salt the ground; take the oldest of Old School approaches. That’s what primitives understand after all. Possession of opium plants or paste or even poppy seeds is an instant hanging offense. Jumping through velvet lined golden hoops to prove that some particular drug producer is involved with the Taliban is a waste of time. They are ALL involved, or at most one step away.
But the poor farmers will starve!!
BULLSHIT.
Eliminating the Taliban’s source of income is the same as sinking Japanese shipping during WWII. Destroy their support infrastructure and they can’t fight nearly as well. This is a war. Start fighting it fully.
Posted by Drew458
on 10/10/2008 at 10:02 AM
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