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Global Issues - AfghanistanWas the U.S. invasion necessary, if any wars are ever necessary? Maybe NATO should have invaded in 1998, after the theo-fascist Taliban started locking up their women, beheading nonconformists and destroying religious art. Those are more honorable intentions than private profit on the "silk pipeline" from Saudi Arabia to China. J did say some wars (and rumors of wars) were necessary, they were the "birth pains." Was this one? Forgiveness is a more difficult struggle than a terrorist jihad or a military occupation, but meanwhile, killing just keeps on killing.
The People won't take getting their buildings smashed. But the FBI strongly suspects a trusted U.S. military scientist of prodding the People's fear after 9/11. If you think the U.S. was tricked into Afghanistan on 9/11, well, then we're really in trouble. We respect the right of free thinkers to consider that possibility. Consider which major powers in the region benefit from the stabilization of this central asian trade, transportation and energy transmission nexus. The question is, why are we paying for it? Or rather, why are we borrowing for it?
The truth will set us all free. All people must be free to share their view of the truth for the truth to become known. Afghanistan was not free. It was a prisoner of many foreign interests using their peoples' pursuit of God to turn them into soldiers for life. The late twentieth century war (world war 3) was not cold. Was a hot war in Afghanistan, Vietnam and everyone else a necessary evil? Look within the heart and find that no evil is necessary. Love is all you need.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]afghanistan's drugs and a new deal for jobs
Do you think it's any coincidence that crack cocaine and military guns hit the streets of America in 1983 at the same time as the latin American contra-communist war funded by weapons sales to Iran?Maybe most people in the government were not in favor of importing cocaine. But when you start that kind of transportation corridor with an "official" security layer that can be manipulated by anyone who can pull the levers, the drugs flow. So it's no surprise that heroin use has gone up in the U.S.
Guess who suffers between both fronts on the war on drugs — America's kids, especially any who have been divided from their parents.
Afghanistan grows a lot of opium poppies. This is a direct problem for Americans. We should focus on healing the emotional and economic rifts that increase demand, as well as supply-side efforts to eradicate poppies, but there's only so much you can do when people have no other economic industry available.
Afghanistan also grows a lot of marijuana. Face it — this really isn't as much of a problem for Americans.
Afghanistan could set an example to the middle-eastern world and oil-producing nations everywhere, by starting a hemp manufacturing industry. Would you rather they export it as hashish, or as deck chairs, particle board, paper and clothes?
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