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The first American narcotics experts to go to Afghanistan under Taliban rule have concluded that the movement's ban on opium-poppy cultivation appears to have wiped out the world's largest crop in less than a year, officials said today.
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originally posted by: onequestion
First off, we're literally funding all of our enemies through the drug trade.
The Mexican mafia to the south and the Taliban to the east.
The Taliban can easily send in billions of dollars worth of bad heroin and kill tens of thousands of kids in the US.
They can use the same network they use to get the drugs in to smuggle in terrorist and suitcase bombs and your no thinking if you think your in a major city in the US.
Guess what, it's going to happen because they are fighting a religious war against the west and their winning.
They won't quit and the worst part about it all is it's OUR policy that enables their action.
This is crazy. We can't pull out and give them free reign and if we attack their source of income who's to say they won't make a move.
We're in a tough position here guys and it looks like there's no easy way out.
originally posted by: onequestion
First off, we're literally funding all of our enemies through the drug trade.
The Mexican mafia to the south and the Taliban to the east.
The Taliban can easily send in billions of dollars worth of bad heroin and kill tens of thousands of kids in the US.
They can use the same network they use to get the drugs in to smuggle in terrorist and suitcase bombs and your no thinking if you think your in a major city in the US.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
Smuggle in bad heroin? Hate to break it to you, but if you are doing heroin, then there is a good chance that you won't live to old age anyways. Dying earlier isn't really going to affect anything. Not to mention you are talking about killing addicts. How many heroin addicts do you know that can function for long periods of time with good jobs and careers? If the Taliban wanted to send us tainted dope, it certainly wouldn't cause much of a ripple in the legal economy (you know, the one that matters).
originally posted by: Soloprotocol
Why risk smuggling anything in when you can buy whatever you need over the counter...and remember, not one Bomb was used on 9/11. just some passports and box cutters.