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[Phil]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

What we should have been doing right along, is providing a way for the locals to make a living with something besides poppies. That would have prevented the Taliban from extorting the profits from the poppy crop to buy arms.

spot on! the majority of the UK's heroin comes from Afghanistan, and this should ahve been tackled at the beginning, by helping to provide an alternative cash crop. the same thing is happening to South America with the coca crop, and that could easily be rectified. sorry, a little off-topic.