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Comrade Grumpy

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1. It wasn't politically or economically feasible to "crush the Afghan opium trade."

Reply to liberal N proud (Original post)

Tue Oct 21, 2014, 12:44 PM

Oct 2014

It accounts for a huge percentage of the national economy.

It enriches well-connected people in the government as well as the Taliban.

It provides an income to tens of thousands of peasant families.

And we knew it. So we basically blew $7.6 billion in a meaningless charade.

We could have just bought the whole crop for about $600 million a year.

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It wasn't politically or economically feasible to "crush the Afghan opium trade." Comrade Grumpy Oct 2014 #1

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