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Originally Posted by TexKan  Does it bother anyone that the govt of Afghanistan coddles the opium farmers that supplies the money for the purchase of these things? Let put some rockets there first! |
It does bother me, but having FIRST HAND knowledge of the anti-drug operations going on in that country, let me say that they are not being coddled. Far from it in fact. The problem is that to fight a successful campaign in Afghanistan, you have to win hearts and minds, and you don't do that by destroying every field full of the only thing that really grows there. We have to teach them to grow something else, and then show them that whatever we tach them to grow is worth something too. Mostly we just need to teach them that its wrong. But something about old dogs and new tricks...