tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post2740963825308569945..comments2024-03-28T15:45:27.890-07:00Comments on Gangsters Out Blog: Afghanistan heroin bustDennis Watsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06736981069304416233noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-42520344204111995052015-05-15T05:30:02.693-07:002015-05-15T05:30:02.693-07:00Only the Taliban had absolutely nothing to do with...Only the Taliban had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. We were conned. Six months before 9/11 the Texas oil companies were wining and dining the Taliban trying to win the contract for the Central Asian Gas pipeline. As soon as the Taliban gave the contract for the pipeline to an Argentina firm instead of an American firm, Afghanistan was invaded and that decision was reversed.<br /><br />Yes there is money to be made in war. By the big corporations. Halliburton made a lot of money in Iraq too. However, the US Military's current involvement with the opium in Afghanistan has nothing to do with nation building. It's just an excuse to do publicly what they did secretly in Vietnam. Mel Gibson was in the movie Air America. It was a comedy based on a true story according to Terry Reed.Dennis Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06736981069304416233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-84075625028895454522015-05-14T19:23:47.309-07:002015-05-14T19:23:47.309-07:00Well, "the reason" was to exact revenge ...Well, "the reason" was to exact revenge for 9-11 by trashing the Taliban who had sheltered OBL. The problem with that is, no one seems to be able to resist the temptation to "nation-build". Or try to. The fact that doing so fails every time does not seem to faze all these highly educated idiots in charge of our foreign policy. We used to call these folks "book smart/street stupid".<br /><br />The Taliban as it existed in 2001 was virtually wiped out on the battlefield by SF ODA's and Air Force Forward Observers calling in B-52 Arc Light strikes. Thousands at a time. This is all pretty much documented by men who were on the ground there, <br /><br />Here's the problem. "Mission creep" and political ambition. You go there, you kill everyone who needs killing, and then you leave. The problem is getting the troops out, people come up with the neatest sounding reasons to stay and they are all BS. Obama promised to bring all the troops home but that was just to get elected. After that he wants to win AND bring the troops home, because he also wants to get re-elected. You win a war, you get re-elected, that simple. And Halliburton/KBR made hundreds of millions, you think they want to go home?<br /><br />There's money to be made in war. Trust me.trailrunner78https://www.blogger.com/profile/06694102447472594355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6576246045591350665.post-10815644616959479212015-05-14T00:31:50.368-07:002015-05-14T00:31:50.368-07:00loved the picture at the bottom of your post! It ...loved the picture at the bottom of your post! It about says it all. If Canada hasn't found any heroin coming in from Afg. then they haven't been looking or they were making sure they were looking in all the wrong places.<br /><br />To maintain the current "peace" in Afg. the tribals have to be given something. If it isn't the cash truck driving from village to village, I guess they have to go back to growing their crops. <br /><br />The Taliban, or the Afg. version of it, were a tad retro. No education for women and no drugs. <br /><br />Who knows, why did we ever invade that country. It just never did make sense. if the Russians couldn't win there, no one could. Now there are reports China's military is having some "success". I'd love to hear more about that. <br /><br />perhaps the invasion was to ensure the heroin trade was opened up again, because their other "reason" to free the women, just hasn't worked out so well. After all the money that was spent on that war and all the deaths, you'd think every woman in Afg. would have at least a high school education and a profession.e.a.f.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06244666617774794918noreply@blogger.com