Afghanistan

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

You just descibe more than half of the world

Probably more than half too! But I'm talking specifically about Afghanistan because they are among the worst, the height of human rights abuses. Aside from them you have North Korea, a few others I'm probably forgetting, but to me the Taliban is not just a human rights abuser; it's a world leader in such evil.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I think it needs to be addressed that despite the rhetoric, which is focused here on politics, the major reason we are in Afghanistan is the opium poppies.I mean, is that way off base? Seems it's more about heroin and opium than any political ideology.

Mmmm.... probably off base. Afghanistan has been at the opium production for hundreds of years, possibly thousands (I took a history course on this 6 years ago, so I'm pretty rusty). Right now they're mostly allowing opium production to continue, which I actually agree with since wiping out the crops indiscriminately, war-on-drugs style, would turn the population against us.

The government likes to tell us that all drug-crop owners are scary bad guys, out to undermine the human soul; but the reality is an impoverished population that would starve without their cocao/opium/cannabis crops. I think the ticket here is to help them develop a new economy based on legitimate goods to feed their families, which I'm pretty sure they're doing.

[zeitgeist]

Afghanistan is capable of growing marijuana. My friends and I used to get hash that came from there, and it wasn't bad. If cannabis is ever legalized here, we should then try get Afghanistan interested in becoming a supplier - I'm sure that many of their poppy growers would be willing to switch, if the right deal was offered to them.

Great idea. This would be a win win situation
I love our government. We'll allow certain drugs like cocaine and heroin to get in to the country for our political gains and then we'll arrest the people who buy it. US gov. at its finest

[Dutch Pimp]

Home of the Kush...:thumbsup:...Afghanistan.

[boaz]

Home of the Kush...:thumbsup:...Afghanistan.

nice. :thumbsup: and i thought i lived in the valley of green giants, not sure how big those are but looks like quite a little patch of them. :jointsmile:

[medicinal]

Taliban takes high cover
Canâ??t smoke â??em out? Troops struggle with 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants

Bronwen Roberts / AFP-Getty Images file
A soldier of the International Security Assistance Force walks past a marijuana field that Taliban militants reportedly used for cover Sept. 19 outside Panjwayi, Afghanistan in Kandahar province.

[medicinal]

Marijuana fighters fox Canadians

Isaf forces have found marijuana forests in Kandahar Province
Taleban fighters using giant Afghan marijuana forests for cover are proving a tough foe to smoke out, the head of Canada's armed forces has revealed.
Thickets three metres (10ft) high readily absorb heat, making them hard to penetrate with thermal devices, said Gen Rick Hillier in a speech in Ottawa.

"You really have to be careful the Taleban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he added.

Burning them is not an option as they are laden with water, the general said.

He was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency that the crew of at least one armoured car had responded by camouflaging their vehicle with marijuana.

Canada's armed forces have more than 2,300 personnel deployed in Afghanistan as part of the Isaf international force and have suffered at least 40 fatalities

[Dutch Pimp]

5 Taliban fighters can keep a Marine company tied down for 14 hours by firing a clip or two...then melt back into the rocks.


...the Marines will use lavish firepower on nothing...then advance the next day...toward, another pile of rocks.

[FreshNugz]

we should get together with canada (or take it over) for there oil sands which have 2.5 times more oil than all opec nations combined cut ourselves of and stop feeding the world let them all die of starvation then it will be the united world of america cause really we dont need them if we take canadas oil and what can canada do lol

LOL that's one master plan champ.
And yes we are loaded with oil...however we already sign 90% of it over to the United States, and even they apparently 'don't have enough'.