http://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:55:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 http://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/comment-page-2/#comment-1135 Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:02:17 +0000 http://www.mediaroots.org/?p=4789#comment-1135 Angus, this is at least some evidence.
I know you are not reading this anyway because you are a small minded idiot!

]]> http://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/comment-page-1/#comment-1003 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 09:48:37 +0000 http://www.mediaroots.org/?p=4789#comment-1003 One who spends dirty money on good purposes is an exceptional philanthropist.He who spends good money on dirty purposes is an exceptional fool. CIA is neither . It spends dirty money for dirty purposes.

]]> http://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/comment-page-1/#comment-1002 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 09:45:04 +0000 http://www.mediaroots.org/?p=4789#comment-1002 Very much in the realm of the possible.

]]> http://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/comment-page-1/#comment-948 Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:54:35 +0000 http://www.mediaroots.org/?p=4789#comment-948 I really don’t think that there are a significant amount of high ranking CIA personnel profiting from the Poppy cultivation market in Afghanistan. There may be some, but I don’t think it’s as far reaching as this reporter makes it seem. US pharma companies could not purchase opium raw materials, to manufacture narcotic/non-narcotic medication, from an unestablished source or vendor. I worked for a chemical company that made a lot of different products that went into a lot of different applications; non were pharma, but we certainly bought plenty of materials/chemicals that could be used to make drugs, bombs or chemical weapons. Anything being imported is always highly scrutinized; that’s both internal and external. The fact is that Afghanistan is a war torn country. It was like that before we got there, except the Taliban (which we can all agree really aren’t a great group of people) were in control of most of the tribal/rural areas of the country. They also harbored terrorists and terrorist “bases”. Something we also can all agree is bad. Now that we have succeeded bringing down the Taliban, killing Bin Laden, and breaking up many elements of a once centralized and more united Al Qaeda-The Extremist, militant Islamic terrorist organization responsible for atrocious crimes worldwide. Now the US has pulled the majority of its troops out, Afghanistan needs to be able to police itself. In order to do this, it needs money. It needs an economy. So the US is protecting the Afghan poppy plant production because it is a major source of revenue for the local polulation. This provides money needed to build infrastructure.This is nothing new. The US has always helped a countries with rebuilding their infrastructure after the United States conducted military operations in or was at war with said country. With Afghanistan, it’s a little trickier than Germany or Japan, the rural areas where most of the operations occurred barely had any infrastructure, it was all tribal communities. So until a more diversified economy and established enterprise can be developed; Poppy plant cultivation is a way that the native Afghan people in these tribal areas can make a living, build their infrastructure, increase their standard of living and ultimately build something that they are willing to unite for, to police, to protect and to try to bring new opportunities by creating relationships with other nations. I see nothing wrong with this. Poppy plants are necessary for a lot of legit businesses. A lot of it is going to the manufacturing of heroin, but at least it isn’t being controlled by cartels like the coca plant is in Peru. Also, that one remark about American Oil companies having something to gain in Afghanistan is complete garbage. The US doesn’t need anymore oil. We have plenty produced here, and plenty produced overseas; it’s the refining process that actually causes most of the price fluctuation, not the crude itself. We refine more oil than any other nation, we import more oil than any other nation, but we also EXPORT more gasoline & petroleum products than ANY OTHER NATION. So whoever says it’s “about getting oil” doesn’t understand the economics of petrochemicals.

]]> http://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/comment-page-1/#comment-947 Mon, 06 Jan 2014 05:03:57 +0000 http://www.mediaroots.org/?p=4789#comment-947 […] I have mentioned this previously, here is a fresh view of the real reasons for the war in Afghanistan and the role of the CIA in drug […]

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