Obama's pet war is now the US's longest running war

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Still doesn't answer why there is a bias toward opium production.

Or why the CIA was assisting Opium trade.
 
There isn't a war going on in Afghanistan now. US troops are just doing guard, like they all do in many spots in the world.
 
We could? We will?

Just like we left Okinawa? Just like we left Germany? Get a grip. Our military will be in astriskstan until our empire collapses under the obesity of its social failures.
 
For Muslims, it is okay to do something normally considered a sin (kill yourself, curse, dress inappropriately, lie, etc.) when you're doing it for the greater good of Allah's Will. So you can't blow yourself up because you're having a bad day, but you can blow yourself up if it kills some dirty infidels. Make sense?
 
PS, the Taliban was fighting its own war against opium with their own independant growers to control the trade. The US entered and is doing the same thing.
 
The old owner of the house moved out, and left the cat in the back yard. The new owner can

a) keep the cat
b) take the cat somewhere else
c) kill the cat and bury it in the back yard

Obama chose option "a".
Now it's his pet.
 
He kind of didn't have a choice. Bush fucked up by invading Iraq. The Afghan war should have been expanded from the get go.
 
The pressure for farmers to drop poppies and the destruction of their poppy crops led to them plant pot as an alternative cash crop.
 
The old owner of the house left it infested with roaches with holes in the wall and was on the verge of being condemned, new owner will need a while to make it livable.
 
How am I trolling?

1) The story is a fact, this war is now the longest in American history.
2) I provide a link to the story.
3) Obama is President, and has been for a year and a half, and he can end it at any time.
4) Obama has elected not to end it, and actually has EXPANDED IT, thus since he is President and has 100% authority to end it at his own command, it is "HIS WAR".
 
umm, no. There are lots of addicts within Afghanistan/Pakistan. Like I said, the trade was destroyed (although not completely, as they claim) because they could no control all the production in Afghanistan or the distribution in Pakistan. Warlords were a real threat to them and they couldn't let them get richer.
 
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