The opium production and our clear ability to control that opium, is the only issue that should be dithered! An overwhelming majority of the American people would agree the opium is key and occupying the poppy fields a doable solution!
Our guys must begin digging foxholes in every opium field, making CIA (Cash In Advance) deals with the Afghanis we are purchasing their opium crop for top dollar, in raw opium form. The farmers don't have to brew the black sap into a dangerous snowy heroin powder, so they are poppy plentiful, an ounce or two for the house, compliments of us.
Raw opium isn't dangerous. You won't kill yourself smoking opium the way you can so easily overdose from a heroin syringe, or pass out and die from too large a snort, so we want their whole crop raw, just like unrefined brown sugar, and we will pay the refined opium heroin price which is similar to tacking on an additional 65 cents to a bushel of Iowa corn.
Instead of Taliban's "freedom fighters" picking us off every other day as we patrol the dangerous Afghanistan border, we will occupy the opium poppy fields and wait for Taliban to show up, our invited guests to their own slaughter.
The key to Afghan quality of life for Taliban, thugs without a country when we defeat them, to shipping their kids off to Harvard is based on who gets to stash the cash from Afghanistan's opium crop.
Karzai and his drug dealing family in Kabul are part of this. How could they not be getting a slice? Nor can Karzai stop us from occupying the poppy fields, as he is a Kabul only puppet leader.
At the same time, on the diplomatic front we ought to push reunification of Pakistan with India. This will initiate an eviction of Taliban by the Pakistani people, besides the military operation going on as we speak! For Pakistan, rejoining India means freedom, food, jobs, education, and a better life. Only the Pak military bureaucrats are against this idea, and their minds could be changed with a passport, an SUV, and a forty acre guarantee in Montana.
Instead of knee jerk reactions to my Hunt For The Red October reference to a new life in "Montana," just get creative and plant that idea above the fold in the Pakistan newspapers! Now is the time for United States to wag the Pakistan India dog!
Sad, these policies, purchasing Afghanistan's opium, piecing off the Pak military, and reuniting Pakistan with India may be too progressive for Barky Obama, and for his Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clintstone.
Certainly wagging this Pakistan-India dog will be incentive for the Paks to completely evict the Taliban and that is what we want! The Paks have nothing going for them living under the Taliban gun.
Don't you know the Taliban bribed the Pak military for long-term safe opium/heroin journey with the opium money. That is how Taliban established their foothold in Pakistan! Opium money! Unfortunately our president is surrounded by bureaucrats who wouldn't recognize the scent of an opium house were they standing at the door.
Many Taliban soldiers will change colors of their turbans and meld into the crowd as soon as they understand the opium harvest has been taken away from them. It isn't about religion, or the neighbor hooded school board, or how many times a day you pray to Big Al (Allah to you), it is about the opium / heroin and millions of dollars in cash! Seeing as you can eat three hot meals a day in the streets of Mumbai for less than 75 cents, with 25 cents for a couple hookah's full, one million dollars = one million days divided by x number of Taliban good fellah's Kalishnekov armed.
In Afghanistan, we need to get busy, prepare the fields, create comfortable foxholes on every poppy acre, booby trap the brush surrounding with a wide safe swath to the farmhouse, and make it clear to the farmers, by CIA shelling out Cash In Advance, we are purchasing their whole raw opium crop but paying top refined heroin price, so the farmers are with us! The heroin refined price is super incentive for the farmers. Less work more money.
Taliban, Al Qaeda and warlords will have to exit their caves and cross the poppy fields instead of picking us off with remotely detonated roadside attacks. Retired military will be opposed to this poppy war, but hard pressed to tell you why because they support that opium trade just the way it is.
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