Could legalizing Drugs remove the Welfare System for Terrorists?
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- cosmobirdie
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Of all the factors on the table in the current Afghan strategic review, the war on drugs and its unintended consequences should be front and center. Our 95-year effort to create a Drug Free America by enforcing world-wide prohibition has twisted our foreign policy out of shape all over the globe and the nightmare in Afghanistan is just the latest manifestation.
It seems to be an open secret that President Karzai’s brother is a player in the heroin trade, and the whole administration in Kabul is said to be riddled with corruption. Unfortunately, the replacement of Karzai, even if that proved possible, would not change the fundamental dynamic. Nearly a tenth of the population relies on the illegal opium industry for their daily bread. Corruption will be the norm as long as the American people are willing to invest limitless resources manning an arbitrary barricade between the sellers and buyers.
Unfortunately narco-corruption, like narcotics themselves, can penetrate any border and there is growing evidence that this cancer has metastasized into every nook and cranny of the known world. Consider, for example, this headline from London: “Corrupt officers exist throughout the UK police service.”
Read the full article here http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/01/29/lets-eliminate-welfare-for-terrorists/
It seems to be an open secret that President Karzai’s brother is a player in the heroin trade, and the whole administration in Kabul is said to be riddled with corruption. Unfortunately, the replacement of Karzai, even if that proved possible, would not change the fundamental dynamic. Nearly a tenth of the population relies on the illegal opium industry for their daily bread. Corruption will be the norm as long as the American people are willing to invest limitless resources manning an arbitrary barricade between the sellers and buyers.
Unfortunately narco-corruption, like narcotics themselves, can penetrate any border and there is growing evidence that this cancer has metastasized into every nook and cranny of the known world. Consider, for example, this headline from London: “Corrupt officers exist throughout the UK police service.”
Read the full article here http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/01/29/lets-eliminate-welfare-for-terrorists/
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If they legalized drugs, the suppliers would still have a market - because people receiving government money here, couldn't show that they're spending it on drugs.
Unless, you guaranteed free, life-time supplies to all welfare recipients.
- 2 years ago
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Those poppy sacs are close to the camera but make it appear as they are a bouquet in the guard's arms. They look as big a softballs.
- 2 years ago
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bailey78
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Those sure are some pretty flowers that man has.
- 2 years ago
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bailey78
