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Originally Posted by Swimmer
What no one has mentioned and should is the heroin/poppy fields that we see our troops trudging through on patrol. We are saving this chithole country so it can export more death in the back door of America. Doesn't anyone have a problem with that? How much file footage do you need to see of our guys/gal walking through poppy fields before you start scratching your heads. They should be burning them or something. Maybe spraying something on the plants. At least when we are fighting one of those "oil" wars it doesn't seem so absurd.
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I agree. The Taliban, when in power, made the cultivation of opium poppies a capital punishment offense in some instances. Now, they are using it as a cash crop.
I thought I had seen an article once that the Taliban had decreased opium production in Afghanistan by something like 90%.
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