Here’s a thought
With ISAF not knowing what to do with all the poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, they have tried to eradicate and they have tried to look the other way, why not use it as the main source of income and export?
Well Michael Hancock at Registan asks exactly that:
If A-E are true, what is our course of action? After discussing the issue at length with some Afghani friends, I know I have only the beginnings of a grasp on the matter. Still – why doesn’t NATO or the US put together a fund to step in as the new buyer of all this opium. Why not ask Australian or Indian farmers to plant something else, as their contribution to the Coalition war effort? If they don’t want to put their soldiers at risk, that’s fine – they can fight the Taliban so much more effectively with their checkbooks, hurting the insurgents by cutting off a primary source of funding.
Please read the entire article and for that matter you should try to read everything on Registan, they know what they are talking about. Back to the issue at hand; are the U.S. and their allies too afraid to even entertain this thought? I am not really sure how it would be done but it should at least be posed to those running the war effort.
Until next time…
