Larry, Canadians say buy the poppies, make it legal, they're needed as pharmaceutical drugs for our aging populations. cut out the Taliban, provide a living for the people until someone finds a market for another crop.
For all the yapping in the corridors of UN and NATO, none of the suits has come up with a crop to take the place of poppies, now world's main source of heroin, far bigger than the Columbia cartel.
Karzai, today begging Canada to stay, says he'll cut out corruption and majesty of the warlords if we'll keep our troops there beyond February 2009. He says we're needed to teach Afghans how to fight! Dear god.
Our guys, taking the heaviest casualties per capita in Afghanistan, don't need the animosity and hatred of Afghans going about their operations. We take a village and outpost, hand it to the ANP, they lose it and we take it again---and again.
We're not mowing down poppies. Remember the hooches in 'Nam?
