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When one peers beyond all of the rhetoric of the White House and Pentagon concerning the Taliban, a clear pattern emerges showing that construction of the trans-Afghan pipeline was a top priority of the Bush administration from the outset. Although UNOCAL claims it abandoned the pipeline project in December 1998, the series of meetings held between U.S., Pakistani, and Taliban officials after 1998, indicates the project was never off the table.
It's widely whispered that the response to 9/11 against the Taliban also encased the failed negotiations over that pipeline. We can leave that to the theorists.
But here's a gross distortion of Sharia law on a poor population which mostly lives by cattle, irrigation, farming and mud houses.
What actually empowers the Taliban is the numerous poppy fields which serve as their money pit. Someone should take control of all poppy flowing out of that area.
It's widely whispered that the response to 9/11 against the Taliban also encased the failed negotiations over that pipeline. We can leave that to the theorists.
But here's a gross distortion of Sharia law on a poor population which mostly lives by cattle, irrigation, farming and mud houses.
What actually empowers the Taliban is the numerous poppy fields which serve as their money pit. Someone should take control of all poppy flowing out of that area.
I've often wondered why it is so difficult to get rid of those poppy fields. I guess the answer is that too many people are making too much money. If the crops were obliterated and replaced with regulated hemp, it would solve many problems. But then again, problem solving on the side of good does not seem to be the order of the day as of late.
The religious types don't like to acknowledge that these kinds of "enforcements" are the result of carrying on a religion based on "revealed knowledge." What is the believer supposed to say when the mullah/priest/etc tells the faithful that these heartless remedies are based on the Good Book?
And that, my friends, is the truth. Religion is poison.
I've often wondered why it is so difficult to get rid of those poppy fields. I guess the answer is that too many people are making too much money.
The Taliban is using drug trafficking to make money to finance their wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They even flip flopped declaring growing poppies was good when previously the Taliban beheaded people for growing poppies when they were in power.
They seem to be Taliban but we cannot hold poor pakistani and afghan nation for this.
We have to try our best to eliminate these activities from these countries.
The Swat region is largely control of the Pakistan military now, however there are still incidents by the Taliban there.
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