War is something to be adivoed at all costs. If there ever was a war, how people are always afraid before, would be burnt to ashes upon the earth. This fear is far enough for anyone to actually use such weapons. The big worry, everyone should fear is a bunch of lunatics, as the current group militants who hate us get hold of weapons or weapons of mass destruction.

Who said that the Taliban were economists? Probably they are as much economists as the peasant farmers who want to grow those things which are more lucrative, namely not wheat. A look into "The Age of Sacred Terror" by Steven Simon would be not so bad, thought.

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The Taliban destroyed most poppy fields because they wanted the prices to skyrocket. People in Central Asia and Russia wouldn't have the money to buy expensive illegal drugs but rich Westerners could. Now they flood exactly these countries with cheap illegal drugs.

Anyway , Afghanistan has an illiteracy rate of ~70%. Poor poppy peasant farmers fighting in an insurgency are definitely not the right choice to kickstart an economy to secure and build up that country. And even if they build schools, who could use them? NATO simply handed over power to local warlords who harass the local population much like the Taliban, as NATO does not care about them anyway.


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So the Taliban were economists? What a foolish comment. So what did the Taliban do to control the drug flow out of the Golden Triangle?  

If EU and international communities like to help out Afghanistan, they [EU and International communities] do not have to forget to help out Pakistan too because Pakistan government can not control his border.   In order to bring stable in the Afghanistan, EU leadership has to come to the Pakistan to talk about it because Pakistan and Afghanistan are almost liked same brothers.     &n bsp;  

That's why it is a good thing that Russia takes over and continues.  Even good Russians don't want the Heroin in their country.  Heroin is dirt.  Good to see Nato and Russia work together.  If I was Russia I wouldn't want that dirt in my backyard.

The Taliban destroyed most poppy fields because they wanted the prices to skyrocket. People in Central Asia and Russia wouldn't have the money to buy expensive illegal drugs but rich Westerners could. Now they flood exactly these countries with cheap illegal drugs.

Anyway , Afghanistan has an illiteracy rate of ~70%. Poor poppy peasant farmers fighting in an insurgency are definitely not the right choice to kickstart an economy to secure and build up that country. And even if they build schools, who could use them? NATO simply handed over power to local warlords who harass the local population much like the Taliban, as NATO does not care about them anyway.

The production of opium has never been as high as it is now, and it is still growing...

So, they really think they can turn around in a merely two years a civil war that goes on now for 33 years, since 1978? Really? These days, you can read all the time that it is getting more and more dangerous in more and more parts of the country, especially in the south.