Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
Seasons are so important here. If something is a 2 on a scale of 1-10 for violence in February, all things being the same, it is likely to be a 6 or 7 in July. It's not the weather, it is the harvest of Poppy, the availability of unemployed workers and available TB cash, and the nature of resistance insurgency (i.e., they fight us because we are here, and when we "surge", guess what? More of us are here!)
So who has decided to leave the poppies in the loop? There lies a significant part of the problem.