On 2009-Feb-24, at 13:53, David Cake wrote: >> The US has only one strategy for defeating the Taliban and that >> involves greatly increasing the output of the legal poppy farms in >> California and flooding North America and Europe with high quality >> cheap or free heroin. We don't seem to have the political will to do >> this. > > There is an alternative. We could start buying Afghani > poppies for legal opiates. Pay more than the Taliban does to Afghani > growers. It is not as if there is no legitimate market for opiates. > >> Fortunately, we don't need to defeat the Taliban. We just need to >> reach an accommodation with then where they stop providing sanctuary >> to as-Qaeda. Obama's people and many in the military and even >> conservative politicians versed in foreign policy seem to get this. > > That would be a morally bankrupt strategy - but also, > unlikely to really succeed.
I'm curious about two things. How much does the income of Afghans have to do with their social structures, beliefs, and identity? And also, does anybody know what the term "terrorism" means in any of all this? Stefano _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
