Website review: The Raw Story | Marines ignore Afgh...
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meatbot rated 7 days ago- Ignoring the poppies: Good idea! It would be like soldiers coming here to Canada and destroying our grain crops and our livestock. Opium is their livelyhood!
On another note... How long have we been "fighting" the Taliban? Aren't they supposed to be some rag tag group with old technology wearing dresses? One word comes to mind: Incompetence. I might bite my tongue later for that, oh well.- Ignoring the poppies: Good idea! It would be like soldiers coming here to Canada and destroying our grain crops and our livestock. Opium is their livelyhood!
- emilytaggart rated 8 days ago
- good story
- sayit rated 8 days ago
- go figure... meanwhile, usa iz 'resurrecting' + sending 4th fleet 2 south america 2 combat 'narco-terrorism.' usa b gang-bangin hypocrite;(
- azwirlwind rated 8 days ago
- We cant go into another country and totally disrespect there ways,we wouldnt like it and nor should they!
- yobaba rated 8 days ago
- The Taliban, whose fighters are exchanging daily fire with the Marines in Garmser, derives up to $100 million a year from the poppy harvest by taxing farmers and charging safe passage fees - money that will buy weapons for use against U.S., NATO and Afghan troops. Yet the Marines are not destroying the plants. In fact, they are reassuring villagers the poppies won't be touched. American commanders say the Marines would only alienate people and drive them to take up arms if they eliminated the impoverished Afghans' only source of income. But an expert on Afghanistan's drug trade, Barnett Rubin, says that the Marines are being put in such a situation by a "one-dimensional" military policy that fails to integrate political and economic considerations into long-range planning. "All we hear is, not enough troops, send more troops," said Rubin, a professor at NYU. "Then you send in troops with no capacity for assistance, no capacity for development, no capacity for aid, no capacity for governance." Good planning, Bush White House.
- javamanjoe rated 8 days ago
- MARINE'S IGNORE AFGHAN OPIUM. GARMSER, Afghanistan -- The Marines of Bravo Company's 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields. Afghan laborers scraping the plant's gooey resin smile and wave.
- greenwhiteblue rated 8 days ago
- More concerned about the Afghans than they are about the people that will be addicted to, or dead from the opium that will find its way to America, Europe and the rest of the world. So the next person you know that dies from a heroin overdose thank a vet.
- kiribird2 rated 8 days ago
- "Poppy fields in Afghanistan are the cornfields of Ohio," said Stover, 28, of Marion, Ohio. "When we got here they were asking us if it's OK to harvest poppy and we said, 'Yeah, just don't use an AK-47.'"
