While
the West continues with its Afghan adventure, the drug barons
continue to make millions from the poppy fields of Afghanistan, The
West while fighting the Taliban, now claim that their aim is to get
rid of the opium poppy fields and choke the heroin trade. What they fail
to mention is that the Taliban had already done that before the West
went in to get rid of the Taliban. It was also the discontinuing of Western aid after the Soviet era that re-started the opium growing in Afganistan before the Taliban came to power.
During the Taliban rule, Afghanistan saw a bumper opium crop of 4,500 metric tons in 1999,.[13] However, in July 2000, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, collaborating with the United Nations to eradicate heroin production in Afghanistan, declared that growing poppies was un-Islamic, resulting in one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns. As a result of this ban, opium poppy cultivation was reduced by 91% from the previous year's estimate of 82,172 hectares. The ban was so effective that Helmand Province, which had accounted for more than half of this area, recorded no poppy cultivation during the 2001 season.[14] (wikipedia)
It
is only since the West invaded that the heroin trade has once again
flourished and grown to the multi-million dollar business that it is
now. The Afghan puppet government is riddled with corruption and
drug barons, who are making millions while the Western troops fight a losing
battle.
11
years of bloodshed and misery to remove the Taliban and as the West
pulls out the Taliban are ready to move in and take control. However
what we have left is a country in ruins with massive unemployment,
heart breaking drug addiction, unbelievable poverty and wealthy drug
barons in control. This is the legacy the West hands to the Afghan
people, they paid in lives and misery, we paid in billions of
dollars and the pointless deaths of far too many of our young people. The
story in Iraq is much the same, the ordinary people pay and are left
to cope with depleted uranium, deaths in every family, destroyed
infrastructure, homelessness, poverty and deprivation. Where is the
benefit of either of these actions, where is the public outrage in
the West. We accept this slaughter and no doubt if the powers that
be decide, for what ever insane reason, to do the same to Syria and /or Iran, the people of the West will put up with it with the usual
anti-war protest by the handful. We live under a state of
international corporate fascism and the public seem to want it,
accept it, or are blind to the fact. WHY.
