quote:Originally posted by 2bagger:
By the way the drug guys are winning the war right now in Mexico as much as I hate to say that.
There was never a time they weren't.
Who funds Al Qaeda? America and Europe. The number one source for money for the Taliban is the opiate trade. We can't just go burn the poppy fields, because that would take income away from the rural Afghanistan farmers trying to eek out a living. We'd be opening the door for more American hate and allowing the Taliban to positively influence rural populations.
There's an easy solution, we just can't reconcile it in our own minds because we've been so indoctrinated over the years with the "drug war". If we're actually going to call it a war, then America is now 8-2.