19 November 2004

Freedom means more opium for everyone!

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Opium production surging in Afghanistan

KABUL - "Afghanistan's opium production is approaching record levels. A new United Nations report says drug production has shot up more than 60% in the past year.
The hardline Taliban regime, which ruled Afghanistan until 2001, greatly reduced opium poppy cultivation. However, under the rule of the new democratically elected president, Hamid Karzai, opium production is approaching record highs, with poppies now being grown in all of Afghanistan's 32 provinces.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that opium cultivation has increased by 64 per cent in the last year alone. The current crop is valued at $2.8 billion US, an amount equal to more than 60 per cent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product.
Afghanistan is now the leading producer of opium in the world, providing three quarters of all global supplies.
UN officials say fears are high that the country will degenerate into a "narco-state" and have voiced concerns of the strong links between drugs and terrorism.
President Karzai has said fighting drugs is his top priority for the next five years."

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Think about this. I mean, REALLY think about this news item. Those "horrible Taliban terrorists" had pretty much halted ALL opium production by threatening (and yes, killing) the poppy-growers, traffickers and those politicians who took kickback money. Now, under Karzai - a former UNOCAL bigwig capitalist, Afgani opium production is back on track and flowing in record amounts. Don't get me wrong, the Taliban were certainly a problem...but since the US invaded and "effectively" wiped them out, why was the resurgence in opium production under our watch tolerated by our "moral" and "freedom-seeking" leaders? Was this an intentional component of the U.S. gift of "freedom & democracy" in Afghanistan all along?
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

yes-fuck the taliban, zzzz-zzz

Anonymous said...

absolutely

Anonymous said...

absolutely