Welcome to Afghanistan

With the war in Afghanistan going right into the shitter where anyone that's ever read anything about that country knew it would go.NATO has decided to take a firmer stance against the poppy trade.Afghanistan's one true cash crop on which farmers can make enough to feed their families for the year.Telling people that it was not so and that it was rich power brokers in Kabul was only the first step.As usual,the US goes in with the big lie and fear mongerers and then backs it up with their most powerful weapon,the almighty dollar.Training for erradication squads and military back up.The Afghans are masters at playing this game.The NATO commander claims they'll be going after the big landowners but this is exactly who they'll never touch.As long as Karzai has the final say on who does what to whom,there will be no touching the wealthy land ownres.There will be the usual dog and pony show with some truely pathetic erradication for the press and the real work will be left to the hapless Afghans who do what they are told and not one thing more.The guys erredicating the poppies are smoking hashish before and after every raid.This much has been widely displayed in documentaries from the scene.Drugs are seized and then dissappear,never to be seen again.They hold an annual burning of the seized narcotics but who knows how much of that fire is actual narcotics.The Afghan people are too smart and far too poor to be burning much cash in a fire for the US media.If the NATO forces are actually dumb enough to go in and start putting a hurt on the major growers they will find out what a real war looks like.This is a billion dollar industry in a dirt poor country.If NATO thinks that the Afghan people will just lay down and be told how to run their business,they're going to find out what makes the Taliban tick.The Taliban is far more philosophically opposed to opium than is the US or NATO.They had the trade down to a trickle and addiction at home was fatal if found out.These are a very hard people that live in a really hard country.To think that the US or NATO has the will to destroy their economy is ridiculous.This will be a big mistake in a war that has been filled with nothing but.