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2009-02-14 Afghanistan

Strategypage: Three More Brigades To Go After Heroin Trade In Afghanistan

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Posted by Grunter 2009-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Afghans come off too me as a bunch of snitches. I mean hell they can be bought for very little and give up every damn body whether guilty or not within a 100 mile radius

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-14 09:56|| 2009-02-14 09:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I mean hell they can be bought for very little..

Sorta like Congresscritters or members of the House of Lords.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-14 10:13|| 2009-02-14 10:13|| Front Page Top

#3 But do they stay bought? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-02-14 10:26|| 2009-02-14 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 For the cost of deploying those 3 brigades, we could simply buy the crop directly from the farmers and burn it.

Or use it to create junkies in NKor and Saudi and Iran.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-14 10:56|| 2009-02-14 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 I have an idea of my own.

No three brigades. Maybe one battalion or two. And air support.

The way you deal with the Heroin trade is, if there's poppies growing in an area where the local warlord is supporting the Taliban, you burn them. Maybe from the ground, or maybe from the air in such a way that they can't do anything about it but watch their liveleihood burn.

If they don't want to be at the top of the list, they can stop funding the Talibunnies and fund some retainers to get out there and chase the Taliban.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-14 11:15|| 2009-02-14 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Package it all up into nickle and dime baggies and use that new road India is building to deliver it to the street junkies in Iran.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-02-14 11:40|| 2009-02-14 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 just salt the ground

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-14 13:20|| 2009-02-14 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Is there any reason we would not want to use a defoliant?

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2009-02-14 14:09|| 2009-02-14 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 hazardous chemicals?

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-14 15:22|| 2009-02-14 15:22|| Front Page Top

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