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Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout
It's a myth that the Taliban tried to eradicate Opium production while they were in power. What happened is that they curbed production for a couple of years to drive the price up. They had huge surplusses in storage and so they created a false shortage so that it would be more profitable.
The Taliban still makes money off the drug trade.
If poppy production were legalized and regulated, the Taliban would lose a vital part of their funding.
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Tell yourself anything to escape the obvious. America are in Afghanistan. It has been so-called liberated. Opium business is now better than ever. If you need to design such a elaborate explanation to escape the obvious, then have at it, but legalizing the drug isn't going to put a dent on the Taliban. They are supported by the Pakistani government. So this whole idea to legalize opium to fight the Taliban is rubbish. Legalizing it makes it easier to transport/traffic the drug.
Giving Pakistan a bottomline to stop supporting the Taliban is the way to fight them, not legalizing drugs.
Why can't Americans just burn the fields like the Taliban did? If we are at war with the Taliban, why is Blair efforting to make their ability to do it easier?