On Feb 24, 2009, at 6:53 AM, David Cake wrote: >> We need to recognize inelastic demand. Every initial success we have >> against the Taliban simply drives up the price of opiates and >> channels >> more resources to them. >> >> 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.
This is silly. I have seen the small farm in California that produces all the legal opium used in North America. Unless we supply addicts we do nothing to reduce the demand for Afghan poppies. > > >> 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. Shockingly, David Cake becomes more of a war monger than David Patraeus: <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/08/terror/main4511185.shtml> We know nothing about you personal history. Maybe you served bravely in Afghanistan. I really hope you aren't imposing a moral standard that you are not willing to live up to yourself. -- It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. -Rollo May _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
