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

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I'm pretty sure Pharma companies largely produce their drugs synthetically. At the rate people in the US and around the world munch down opiate pills they'd be on the price level of heroin internationally (not inflated by false drug wars like in the US) if poppy were used.
 
OK, that doesn't answer the question. Why are we helping opium farmers and destroying marijuana crops?
 
Of farmers who are not associated with terrorists. The fields that are associated with terror groups get destroyed.
 
Editor's Notebook: Afghan War Now Country's Longest

The Afghan war was enormously popular when it began on a fall Sunday eight and a half years ago. Less than a month had passed since the September 11 attacks, and President Bush could draw on deep wells of support when he ordered air strikes against Kabul , Jalalabad and the Taliban stronghold at Kandahar.

"We are supported," Bush said that day, with only slight exaggeration, "by the collective will of the world."

By mid-November American forces had driven the Taliban from the capital; at month's end Kandahar was in the U.S. sights; in early December the Taliban leadership fled, and Marines set up a base near the Kandahar airfield.

No one proclaimed "Mission Accomplished," but they might as well have. Surely, it seemed, this would be a brief campaign.

On the one-year anniversary, in October 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told CNN, "The Taliban are gone. The Al Qaeda are gone." U.S. forces were by then in Iraq, of course; that seemed the conflict to worry about.

On the one-year anniversary, in October 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told CNN, "The Taliban are gone. The Al Qaeda are gone." U.S. forces were by then in Iraq, of course; that seemed the conflict to worry about.

And yet here we are, nearly a decade since that October Sunday, and the end of this often-tabbed "Other War" is hard to see, or fathom. Under the order of a new commander-in-chief, the U.S. is now "surging" forces into Afghanistan; a new and complex mission looms in Kandahar; and the Taliban are "surging," too
 
And we help them move it as well.

Why are we destroying the crops of mairjuana farmers not associated with terrorist organizations.

Or continue to beat around the bush.
 
Maybe they do. Maybe they grow their own in controlled environments for quality. I'm not sure. Either way, I'm sure they don't need to buy as much as the Afghans are producing, which is mainly for "recreational use".
 
Apparently we have left the decision to destroy a crop up to the Afghan security forces. If they decide to destroy a field we help.


Neat pics

http://publicintelligence.net/usnato-troops-patrolling-opium-poppy-fields-in-afghanistan/
 
Im not sure what exactly you're reffering to, but

To see where it goes? To see how exactly it gets from Afghanistan and then mostly to Russia, but also the US? To see if the enemy has or could exploit these same routes to ship something a bit nastier to the US? How do you stop a network when you dont even know where they are and how they operate?

As for marijuana or other drugs, its mostly for domestic consumption, owned mostly by domestic drug networks or warlords who could potentially threaten areas where the government doesn't have a strong presence if they decide to turn kinetic.
 
We've been doing this for our entire occupation of Afghanistan.

The war on drugs is a sham
The war in Afghanistan is a sham
And we all know the war in Iraq is a sham but its too late to pull out now.
 
Many opium farmers previously protected by US troops have switched to Marijuana and hash production only to have their crops destroyed. Thus, they started growing opium again.

Afghanistan's marijuana production is not just for local consumption. It gets sent to pakistan and shipped throughout the eastern hemisphere. Afghanitan is asia's mexico.
 
Funny that we invaded Iraq about the time the first wave of outrage over opium protection hit America.

The best way to cover something in the open is distraction.

Opium? SADDAM HAS WMD's!!
 
The taliban had the crops down to say 5% then soon after we arrived the poppy crops jumped about 500%. Another extension of the "drug war" in reverse. End the "drug war" in American policy, then we could begin to learn the mentality required to "win" Afghanistan(mind our own business and help the women). If we concentrated on defending the irrigation networks, for example, we would have already won far more... fuck the politics. You can't bring a narrow minded military/political attitude to a foreign country and expect to accomplish anything imo.
 
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