Quote Originally Posted by 120mm View Post
And that worked SO WELL for the Soviets when they tried it.
Tried what? Are we talking about the same thing?

Equating poppy-cultivation to insurgency in Afghanistan is only one of the major mistakes we've made in that country.
If you connect the dots (and read) you will see that the Taliban are partially funded by the Afghan drug trade. How dumb can the US continue to be to allow the source of that funding to flourish right under their noses? The situation is so outrageous that one needs to demand to know who in the US political/civilian/military structures have been bought off by the druglords.

But if you want to set the whole country afire, have fun.
So what are you saying? The US's current best 'friends' the druglords are more dangerous than the Taliban? A war requires warriors. A war against the Taliban requires warriors. A war against the drug lords requires warriors. If you ain't got the warriors who are up for the fight better to stay at home and play tin-soldiers.

Try this... if there are no poppies grown there will be no opium which means there will be no heroin... no funding for the Taliban (from that source), no druglords, no heroin deaths, no heroin addictions. Not that difficult to understand is it?