That’s so sad for the Taliban, how will they be able to finance their Terror and IED campaign.
I’m waiting for the Zero to bail them out.
While some farmers have reportedly accused the United States and Britain of spraying their crops with a white powder, the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said opium was the likely culprit.
Ok, so maybe we did spread the disease to stop the heroin sales that fund the killing of our troops. So what? Aren't we at war?
If I'm suppose to be sad about this, I must have missed something.
***As the pink poppy fields of southern Afghanistan ***
Years ago I read that about 125 years ago there was an attempt to raise poppies in Kansas.
It was so labor intensitive that the farmers gave up soon after.
Looks like the price of heroin is going to skyrocket like oil has!
I have a hard time believing these farmers acquire anything beyond the barest subsistence income, when men with guns come to negotiate the selling price for the opium crop. My opinion, totally unsubstantiated, is that the vast majority of these folks could have a much better standard of living under the protection of a viable national government, which would allow them to retain the profits from growing legitimate crops.
“...opium poppies hit by mysterious disease...”
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What does that do to my heroin futures contracts?
if opium could be legally grown elsewhere,
the Taliban would see reduced funding
The Chicago thug is deeply saddened, he, now, has no reason to be in Afghanistan.
Great, now it’s going to take more food stamps than usual to get your heroin.
I guess we’ll have to give ‘em a cost of living increase.
okay, who has been peeing on the poppies?
A POX ON THEIR POPPIES!