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Originally Posted by foreverwar
You seemed to have missed my point ( once again) - please see the OP ( reproduced above).
The family tragedy involved was that of a British family, and the point was that their tragedy was being milked by a political party without permission or discussion - my point (above) was that once more a thread was transformed into " lets bash other races/ethnicities, and make them the scapegoats for all bad things that are happening" thread, and my words were intended to reflect the direction the thread had taken, not my beliefs (but hey, let's not let things like facts stop the fomenting of discord, huh?).
I love the statement " it is of course common sense" - it is up there with "I am sure you will agree" and " we all think" - people sometimes forget their definition of " common sense" is often neither common or sense (imho). |
It is of course common sense that the countries cultivating these drugs are the countries the drugs coming from, this surely means these countries are without doubt the source of the problem.
Stop the huge drug cultivation in these countries would go some way to preventing future ruined lives and deaths through drug addiction. The large scale cultivation in certain countries has made drug use a pastime cheaper than alcohol.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...22624E0A3E.htm
14% of Afghans involved.