Bush seeks end to Afghan drugs

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 | By Bill Sammon

[JohnHuang2]

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Bush yesterday urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai to eliminate his country's heroin trade, while Mr. Karzai said he was "sad" that U.S. troops had abused Afghan prisoners. Despite these points of friction, the two leaders signed an agreement to increase cooperation on security, political and economic issues. The agreement, among other things, called for ending production of poppies in Afghanistan, the world's leading producer of the raw material that is refined into heroin for the streets of the United States.

[injin]

They need to develop a type of UAV aerial sprayer .
With dozens of such aircraft being guided out to hit the poppy fields day and night for months on end with Glyphosate
(Roundup) they will end the poppy growing. No need to expend
or risk manpower on this . Glyphosate is a very low impact on the environment herbicide, and would work well in a dry terrain like Afghanistan.

[HiTech RedNeck]

An Afghan with a lil ole machine gun would make short work of an unmanned drone.

We'd need to build something that zooms in at several hundred MPH like a smartbomb (only smaller), sprays, then if it has survived zooms on to another plot of poppies, sprays, etc.

[frankenMonkey]

why don't we just pay cash for the crops, then destroy it? probably cost a lot less than fielding troops, and the locals still make a living in their "traditional" manner.