Posted on 10/30/2015 1:32:44 AM PDT by AdmSmith
“Wipe out the crops and let them figure out what else to grow. Either the world is serious about the drug problem, or it isn’t.”
That’s about as simple as “regime change”. You can’t just wipe them out once and they are gone. The residents will just grow another round of the same stuff,since this has been a cash crop for a long time over there. It’s capitalism 101: they produce a good or service that people will pay money for.
As long as there is a Hugh demand the price to eradicate it will be huge, i.e., you have to kill all the growers. And that’s too high a price to pay.
Cause they’re selling it to us so we can sell it and finance other stuff.
I would guess that brightly-colored poppy flowers are visible from the air.
All it would take is a UAV outfitted with a crop-dusting attachment, to spray herbicide on the poppy fields.
The message would be: you plant cabbages, we leave you alone. You plant poppies, you lose your crop, and your field will be un-plantable for a year until the herbicide decays.
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