Reaping the seeds we sow?
“The Taliban may suddenly be the dream regime of our own war drug war zealots, but in the end this alliance will prove a costly failure. Our long sad history of signing up dictators in the war on drugs demonstrates the futility of building a foreign policy on a domestic obsession.”
This article was written in May but seems very appropriate now. We have sent money and support to nations that have turned around and bit us in the ass in the past and then in retrospect realized what a mistake it was. Afghanistan treats human rights like mere suggestions, they harbor bin Laden and yet we send them $43 million because they outlawed growing Opium. There is so little logic in that.
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The logic is that of a politician. Setting up the Taliban by ensuring failure on their part in order to build an even larger case against them. It makes sense from a political standpoint. We’ve bribed them to fail in outlawing poppy growth and export bringing social unrest to the already empoverished people and given them more money to allow for funding of Bin Ladens efforts which could in theory enable us to track his activity more easily when he begins to focus on purchasing weapons of mass distruction. Does that make sense? It’s all very fucked up.
The logic is that of a politician. Setting up the Taliban by ensuring failure on their part in order to build an even larger case against them. It makes sense from a political standpoint. We’ve bribed them to fail in outlawing poppy growth and export bringing social unrest to the already empoverished people and given them more money to allow for funding of Bin Ladens efforts which could in theory enable us to track his activity more easily when he begins to focus on purchasing weapons of mass distruction. Does that make sense? It’s all very fucked up.