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Subject: Russia Versus The Heroin Lords
SYSOP    7/8/2012 8:02:29 AM
 
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trenchsol       7/8/2012 9:14:38 AM
Only about ten percent of Afghans profit from the drug trade while most of the rest are victimized by it.
 
It might be true, but those ten percent buy local goods and the local traders, perhaps, pay some taxes, including, maybe some local variant of VAT. So, it is likely that there are more of them who benefit from drug trade, including government.
 
So, if one day Taliban decide to give up weapons and join political process, international threat of terrorism will be reduced, but drug traffic is likely to increase. 
 
DG
 
 
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vahitkanig       7/8/2012 11:08:05 AM
Heorin more  dangerous  than  cocain because its   damage  the body  and  the  brain.  Also easy  to get addict.
 They  say  5  times  to use  enough  to be addict.
 
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malcolmkyle    Why no mention of the CIA?   7/8/2012 5:33:13 PM

"CIA are drug smugglers." - Federal Judge Bonner, while head of the DEA

"The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic" by former DEA agent Michael Levine

"Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb

"Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press" by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

"The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade" by Alfred W. McCoy

"The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace" by James Mills

"Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA" by Terry Reed, (a former Air Force Intelligence operative) and John Cummings (a former prize-winning investigative reporter at N.Y Newsday). 
 
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