The poppy fields of Afghanistan.
Posted on 05/05/2016 4:29:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
banner poppy crop in Helmand this year will add significant revenue to the Taliban's coffers, a senior U.S. military spokesman based in Afghanistan told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday, as hundreds of U.S. troops remain in the volatile southern Afghan province where the Taliban has made gains since the fall.
“There is a concern that with this very good poppy crop that they had this year, it is going to result in the Taliban being able to turn that into money for their efforts,” said Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland, a spokesman for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Cleveland added that there has been a decrease in Taliban attacks of late because April is the peak harvest time in Afghanistan.
“We have seen a bit of a lull in the fighting over the last month-plus, really because we think that a lot of the Taliban fighters have been out harvesting the poppy,” he said.
Cleveland said 700 to 800 U.S. troops remain in Helmand, the largest poppy growing province in Afghanistan. The Taliban recaptured large portions of Helmand this fall, forcing the U.S. military to reinforce the beleaguered Afghan Army, who have since pulled back from checkpoints and onto better protected bases.
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PARAQUAT!..........................
Napalm works very well with poppies...
The poppy fields of Afghanistan.
Perhaps this is related to what was reported on another thread that President Obama has stepped up releasing “non-violent” criminals (read drug dealers) from prison. He knows that the Taliban sales and marketing channels are going to need more employees!
Napalm it
Burn the fields, salt the earth, shoot anyone who tries to intervene.
Takes a lot of logistical support to move all that. I wonder which country is helping them. US? Russia? Germany? Makes me think of ‘The Corporation’ in Catch-22.
My moma used to raise poppy flowers like that way back in the 1950s! We did not know they were “bad” for you! They were pretty!
Nuke the poppies.
It does seem like quite a coincidence doesn’t it?
We don’t seem to want to bomb terrorists ..
Bomb the poppies ..
Minimal collateral damage
Have the pharmaceutical companies do business there. Anyone who has traveled to Tasmania knows that there are endless opium poppy fields used for opioid based pain killers.
Take some drones, add crop-dusting equipment, and dust all the poppy fields with a persistent herbicide.
Can’t napalm them — after the first field, the Taliban will tie up kids as human shields for the poppies, and video anything which happens to them.
Taliban burned poppy farms
our allies were the poppy growers
Use crop dusters with pig blood.
Pramitol.
Isn’t there now an armed and armored version of the Air Tractor crop-dusting plane?
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