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So what do you suggest exactly? Leave it as it is? The people who grow poppies in Afghanistan do so because it's the only crop they can get any cash for. There is endemic unemployment. To export it they have to use people who can get it out of the country, so it goes to the Taleban who use the frontier provinces of Pakistan so get it out of the country through there where it's processed into heroin
What exactly are the other solutions? Destroy the opium crops and therefore peoples liveliehoods whilst letting the production just move to other places like Laos, meaning that the problem stays the same here? But then you have even more hostility against the occupying forces in Afghanistan and more support for the Taliban. That's what has been happening, and it has been an umitigated disaster.
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You missed my (flippant) point dude.
We're their in anycase. (probably the long haul..) so why don't we take over the industry by nationalising it?
Told ye it was a flippant point. But then again is it? If it was oil?