Opium war = EPIC FAIL
source: http://www.smh.com.au/world/opium-fight-a-huge-waste-of-money-us-envoy-admits-20090322-95l1....
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US efforts to combat the Afghan opium trade, a main source of funds for Taliban-led insurgents, have been wasteful and Washington plans to revamp its strategy, a regional envoy has said.
"The United States alone is spending over $800 million a year on counter-narcotics. We have gotten nothing out of it, nothing," Richard Holbrooke told senior world politicians and experts on Saturday.
"It is the most wasteful and ineffective program I have seen in 40 years in and out of the government," the new US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan told the Brussels Forum conference.
Will the trade ever stop?
"The United States alone is spending over $800 million a year on counter-narcotics. We have gotten nothing out of it, nothing," Richard Holbrooke told senior world politicians and experts on Saturday.
"It is the most wasteful and ineffective program I have seen in 40 years in and out of the government," the new US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan told the Brussels Forum conference.
Will the trade ever stop?
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PirateSauce
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LOL
One of the main reasons we are in Afghanistan is for the opium. resources = war = big money
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PirateSauce
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asoltero
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PirateSauce:
true...thank you for statin' the obvious
- 2 years ago
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asoltero
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nmsamanda
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I have always felt that Osama was not in afghanistan and drug riches is the only reason we are there. Won't the private prison system have a bank roll when the soldiers come home?
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nmsamanda
