well THAT is enlightening
Is there any reason why we can’t deployed aerial herbicide spraying drones ?
Round-up/ Glyphosate is the way to go . Unlike Vietnam ,where we were trying to deal with vast rain soaked ,broadleaf , impenetrable jungle , AFG is open and dry and not jungle . A little bit of Round-up is nowhere near as toxic as what they cooked up as Agent Orange ( 24D-245T ) . Every opium field should receive a light misting of Roundup , right as they start to bud with flowers . Eliminate the seed pod cycle . Do this for a few years and that’s it . In the meantime , introduce alternative crops . In Thailand it was cabbages and coffee . In AFG it could be hemp , for rope . It’s obvious that MJ grows well there . There is an endless market for quality hemp , if the nylon industry lobbyists stay out of the picture .
Our ROE have simply continued to strangle our war fighting tactics resulting in perhaps a slinking towards a castle siege mentality/strategy. Hey, who wants to get smoked if we are just going to di di mau anyway?
I believe 5 times as many lives have been lost on zero's watch than were lost on Bush's.
Not only are we not eradicating the poppy fields, but in not doing so they are proliferating exponentially.
The local saying is- the Americans have the watches, but we have the time.
Being landlocked and over 600 miles inland makes for some hairy travel thru Injun country, and makes logistics a nightmare and very very expensive. Bribes for the governments, bribes for the robbers/raiders/highwaymen/ bribes for the terrorists/ bribes for the warlords, etc., etc., etc.
We joked that it wasn't at the end of the world, but that you could see it from there.
Money? I stood in a finance office and they had money stacked like bales of hay, at least 8 feet tall. A pallet of hundred dollar bills 4 feet high is a billion dollars. There were billions of dollars in the damn vault. I held a stack of brand new $50 bills the size of a toaster, which was $150,000. UNBELIEVABLE! Lights out. Keep the faith. Goodnight.