tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2275824557999662261.post1997587296870055935..comments2024-03-27T02:20:19.265-04:00Comments on Informed Comment: Global Affairs: Counter-Narcotics in Afghanistan V: Is Opium Poppy Cultivation Related to Poverty?Juan Colehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794922740548563607noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2275824557999662261.post-13257490174798294822007-12-11T21:55:00.000-05:002007-12-11T21:55:00.000-05:00Just after 911, there was an estimate floating aro...Just after 911, there was an estimate floating around that the entire opium crop of Afghanistan could have been purchased for around US $275 million.<BR/><BR/>Anyone who has seen the United Sates operate knew that the current situation in Afghanistan was the inevitable conclusion of the incompetence of the Bush administration acute lack of cultural understanding and wholesale denial of the lessons of history.<BR/><BR/>Spraying defoliants has never been a solution to illegal drug production. A recent example of this amazing incompetence would be Columbia and the cacao crop. <BR/><BR/>Hopefully, the recent news that Gates is going to make changes in US attitude at the State Dept. level gives a glimmer of hope that some sanity may creep back into the Afghanistan situation.<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/28ea38Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2275824557999662261.post-38885650256257502632007-10-26T09:01:00.000-04:002007-10-26T09:01:00.000-04:00Along this line of thinking, Oliver Roy also discu...Along this line of thinking, Oliver Roy also discusses in one of his books how Al Quaeda has a strategy to recruit members by talking more about the oppressed and exploited poor. <BR/><BR/>If they recognize the opportunities available by attacking poverty, then how come we can't?<BR/><BR/>Bob SpencerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2275824557999662261.post-32514786454805147702007-10-25T20:43:00.000-04:002007-10-25T20:43:00.000-04:00A very interesting article.A very interesting article.Yankee Doodlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10359740268842861707noreply@blogger.com