On 12/07/2009 01:38 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: >> <snipped> Does anyone else feel like there is something wrong >> with this picture. LOL > > > imo, we cannot try to police the world. We need to stay home and mind > our own house and stop trying to pull the puppet strings in places > outside of the USA.
There are too many competing forces at work in Afghanistan, both internally an abroad. For example, the Taliban was able to greatly reduce the underground drug economy in Afghanistan by declaring the growing of poppies as un-Islamic, which is one good thing I can say about them. However, the drug trafficker and War Lord want the country to be in a state of ciaos; because, this leave them free from organized interference to carry on their business, so they love the fact that the USA will come in and weaken the Taliban. Although the Taliban ban against poppies was a good thing, their pro al-Queda sympathies represent a potential problem for the USA. I think the USA should say out of religion, morals, politics, and everything else in Afghanistan, (eg nation building), but use these forces as necessary tools to combat al-Qaeda. I don't want to see Afghanistan turn into another tar-baby in which the USA become entangled. Below are a couple of excerpts from a wiki. The link is towards the bottom of my post. #-------------- Excerpt: During the Taliban rule, Afghanistan saw a bumper opium crop of 4,600 metric tons in 1999,[7]. In July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar declared that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns. As a result of this ban, opium poppy cultivation was reduced by 91% from the previous year's estimate of 82,172 hectares. The ban was so effective that Helmand Province, which had accounted for more than half of this area, recorded no poppy cultivation during the 2001 season. #---------------- #-------------------------- Excerpt: "Drug traffickers have a symbiotic relationship with insurgents and terrorist groups such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Instability makes opium cultivation possible; opium buys protection and pays for weapons and foot soldiers, and these in turn create an environment in which drug lords, insurgents and terrorists can operate with impunity. "Opium is the glue that holds this murky relationship together. If profits fall, these sinister forces have the most to lose. I suspect that the big traffickers are hoarding surplus opium as a hedge against future price shocks and as a source of funding for future terrorist attacks, in Afghanistan or elsewhere." #---------------------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan#The_Afghan_economy_and_opium or http://tinyurl.com/yzh27xl Regards, LelandJ > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
