We consume basically the entire world's supply of opiates Hastings.
We have never tried to shut down production....we try to control production.
I will stipulate that we have a lot of dope heads consuming a huge portion of the supply. But why would we need to be in Afghanistan? I will stipulate that they produce a lot of opium. Do we need to be there to protect the supply for our dopeheads? Or to try to interrupt the supply? I'm just wondering what are we trying to accomplish in a country where every other world power from the British Empire to the Russians has failed in their efforts to bring them to heel. It seems our money which cannot be retrieved would have been better spent here. Our Army could have been building stuff instead of trying to civilize savages. The most important thing now is to quit throwing good (actually fake) money after bad.
