Comments on: The Afghan Dream Team

By: Valcan

Valcan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:28:01 +0000

Of course to the finance the purchase of the opium crop they can just sell it to bored GIs who don’t know why they are dieing for a war with no objective. SOP.
Posted by: Sgt Oblat at June 13, 2009 07:30 AM
Am i the only one who has noticed liberals who claim to be such intouch people and well rounded are the most bitter? Go pet a kitten or something. Buy a bunny?

By: Sgt Oblat

Sgt Oblat — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:30:09 +0000

Of course to the finance the purchase of the opium crop they can just sell it to bored GIs who don’t know why they are dieing for a war with no objective. SOP.

By: mike j

mike j — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:42:15 +0000

Even better, get the AQ guys hooked on it and sell it back to them. You could call it “72 virgins.” They’d be too bankrupt and sleepy to bomb anyone.

By: Drake1

Drake1 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:23:10 +0000

Seems like a no brainer. We put people who fought us in Iraq on the U.S. payroll, so why not put the poppy producers.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:03:50 +0000

I agree with you, b. We need more than military force to fix the problem in Afghanistan. Most of that country doesn’t have electricity, running water, or roads. It’s no surprise that they’re going to struggle implementing democracy.
Personally, I think we should purchase poppies from the Afghani farmers in bulk. Pay good prices and they’ll sell to us. Al Quaeda gets much of their funding from heroin distribution. By purchasing the poppy crop (who cares what we do with it — burn it, dump it in the ocean, whatever), we allow the Afghani farmers to earn a living, we bring them over to our side, we deny Al Quaeda its chief source of funds, and we decrease the world heroin trade. It’s win-win-win-win as far as I can tell.
But overall, we need ideas and plans that will help set up Afghanistan as a stable country. We can’t do that with just war.

By: b

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:04:03 +0000

It is good that the Army, Marines, USAF and SOF will be singing off the same sheet of music, but where is the increase from Dept. of State, USAID, and rest of the USG with our allies? We got introduce a code of law, clean Afghan law enforcement and court system and that will take a generation to implement. It is time to match the military effort with reforms for a legitimate Afghan government and reduce corruption while increasing the reach of good governance and civil society or the military portion of the solution is in vain. As the saying goes: We can

By: xfactor

xfactor — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:22:55 +0000

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By: gsak

gsak — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:30:56 +0000

o.O …Did a comment get deleted?