Quote:
Originally Posted by Escapee
No, the drug problem would not come to an end. The problem would not be as widespread though if these countries had been stopped from cultivating it in the beggining.
Hard drugs have never been so cheap, this is due to supply and demand. The vast amount of drugs produced by these countries have made the price affordable.
I was never offered hard drugs when I was younger, and I believe this was due to cost, in the past 12 months I have been offered hard drugs 'To try' on more than one occassion. I believe this is due to the fact that they are cheap enough to offer around to others like people do with fags.
The 14% if true means there are probably about 4.5 million people in Afghanistan alone involved in drug cultivation and trafficking, I dont know if they are counting the Pakistanis that are coming over the border for the poppy fields now the majority of Taliban have been killed.
If you speak to soldiers coming back from a tour in Afghanistan my experience is that they say that now they are fighting Pakistanis and many are coming over the border for the drugs.
Of course this may be fact but it is far easier to brush it aside as a racist comment.
|
I don't brush it aside as a racist comment (I see you are using the old pre-emptive strike of "reverse racism" card again - one of your favourites, isn't it?
) - very pleased to see the qualification of
may in your post - it also
may not be fact, but it is unlikely, given your post history, that you would promote that premise.
btw, how could the soldiers tell the difference between the Pakistanis and the Afghanis? I was out with my nephew and his mates last week (who had recently been in Afghanistan with the RHF) and they didn't mention Pakistanis at all, when asked who they were up against; they just classed them all as Terry Taliban.