We’ve spent untold billions of dollars to fight the war on drugs and we’ve not only lost but we’ve given up and let it fill our streets with homeless and killed millions of children. The Taliban who have basically nothing shut down the drug trade in one year of running Afghanistan. So which is the better government?
Afghanistan is among the poorest countries on Earth and we are among the richest. And yet they protect their country from poison and we encourage it. https://t.co/STKHWVB9tr
— orionscoldfire (@orionscoldfire) July 2, 2023
Let’s see if they keep it up. They used to make half a billion dollars per year off it. Here in the US, drug billions buy political and corrupt law enforcement favor. First we’d have to execute all corrupt cops and politicians. And we do not fight it as a war and never have. If we swooped in and confiscated all drugs, burned down the buildings and summarily executed all participants we would see a reduction,too. But we would have to become a tyranny else the lawyers would all have to be executed or else put to useful manual labor… Read more »
We protected the opium fields for 20 years, and they now have a religious government that is not endorsing the use of narcotics. Since we no longer are trading with them they are no longer needing to sell the opium. Kinda goes hand in hand, not a coincidence.
My thought was, “Here are these primitive tribesmen who live like cavemen but after fighting against us for twenty three years have the same policy about opium before and after all this struggle. Sure, they are barbaric and tyrannical. But if you look at the result in our country, Mexican traffickers killing at will and untold thousands of young lives destroyed, are we demonstrably more successful at responding to the narcotics reality than they are? They kicked us out of their country and we won’t kick the traffickers out of ours.
In the US, the drug trade fattens the wallets of corrupt politicians, cops and judges while giving those same criminals a reason to trample all over our rights and increase their power. They have no incentive to win the war on drugs.
The Taliban already have complete control over their people. They don’t need the excuse.
Actually, drug organizations and street criminals alike are very much in favor of antigun laws, the more the better. Criminals prefer disarmed victims. They do not fear cops or courts, but they do fear little old ladies with shotguns, because little old ladies know no jury will send them to jail for cutting a 200 pound criminal invader in half with a 12 gauge.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtnj6pI7zuA
Was that Ruth Gordon?
The Afgans, as a society, are willing to put up with the necessary ruthlessness to eliminate most of their drug use. The US is not. Just a statement of fact.
To use a biological analogy, I suspect that drug use plus all the necessary infrastructure is like a stage IV cancer: metastasized so thoroughly through the body politic as to be fatal to root it out.
It’s true that the United States could never have the control over its people the the Taliban has. But the United States government has resources to minimize the trafficker’s reach. The victims of this scourge could be forcibly sequestered to get off the drugs. Singapore does it. Instead the Department of Justice uses its considerable resources to allow illegal aliens, including narco-trafficantes to infiltrate this country. And all the rest of their time is spent spying on conservatives.
Sure, maybe it’s too late but I can still see who was responsible for the condition.