Posted on 11/25/2017 11:15:13 AM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
16-years after the Bush administration began military operations in Afghanistan, President Trump has just launched a military campaign of his own using high-tech stealth fighters to bomb drug labs in the country....On Monday, the Defense Department said it unleashed F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to bomb narcotic production facilities in southern Afghanistan targeting the revenue streams of the Taliban...
.....Every since the U.S. started occupying the country in the early 2000s, OPIUM PRODUCTION SOARED. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said without drugs, the war in Afghanistan “would have been long over.”....."In 2017, Afghanistan’s opium crop and production both HIT A RECORD HIGH.....The strikes Sunday hit seven Taliban drug laboratories and a headquarters in three districts across northern Helmand. Three occurred in Kajaki district, four in Musa Qala and one in Sangin — all areas controlled by the U.S. military at the height of Obama’s troop surge there...
...Until now, though, those U.S. efforts have not directly involved the military. During the early post-Taliban years, the Pentagon focused exclusively on pursuing al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents and expressly avoided diverting efforts toward curbing the drug trade..."
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No wonder drug addicts hate him!
My brother had a bunch of AGent Orange dumped on him, he’s dead.
Spray gasoline on crop. Leave area. From helicopter, drop Molitov cocktail into middle of field, and then climb for the clouds before the fireball forms.
No need for Agent Orange. Crop eradication is simple.
First POTUS since Nixon to make the obvious connection.
It’s the height of stupidity to wear out F-22s for this very low end work.
We could do this with Apache helicopters.
Yep. Lot’s of happy US military campers in the Mid East now. They are getting to do what they do best.
It costs a lot to use Low observable aircraft to target heroin factories but the chance to kill the operators in the factories is priceless
...16-years after the Bush administration...
We should have napalmed those poppy fields on Sept 12, 2001.
I love President Trump,
bit this is not one of his better moves.
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we are being used.
a $100million airplane to blow up a $1000 hut..
the sheeple will never wake up
If it works, great. I kind of get the idea that this trade is supporting things both fair and foul. And that the western world won’t have a lot of patience with a general starvedown of Afghanistan.
This might just get Trump killed.
Or it might mean a deal with struck with Mexico to take out the competition.
And bombs make bad herbicide.
A fleet of cheap drones spraying vegetation killer and the problem goes away. Dropping bombs just plow the soil
That’s a well thought point. I thought this was what earlier administrations, like Reagan, had been doing. Not to mention the cost.
But it might be that the chemical plants to process it were bombed. That’s kind of like whack-a-mole though.
“Since when can the F-22 deliver JDAMs?......
Who gives a JDAM?......What Trump is delivering is a MESSAGE to the CYA/DEEP STATE world-class opium trade drug runners out of Langley.
The funding of secret wars through the illicit drug trade IS OVER, the US military will not be guarding the poppy fields any longer.
Which leads me to believe Team Trump feels that their is so much payola to protect these drug making assets and facility that yes, no one can be tipped off if you are coming in subsonic at high altitude, refueled along the way with air roots that may or may not be over friendly territory. I wonder if the Saudi's helped and or Israel. Love to know the ordinance, JASSM doesn't go external or not that we have been told. Man talk about reaching out and touching someone...
I hope that you mean the Junkies and not People that require Pain Meds.
There is a BIG DIFFERENCE...
“Since when can the F-22 deliver JDAMs?......
Who gives a JDAM?......What Trump is delivering is a MESSAGE to the CYA/DEEP STATE world-class opium trade drug runners out of Langley.
The funding of secret wars through the illicit drug trade IS OVER, the US military will not be guarding the poppy fields any longer.
Exactly one of the 10 reasons I couldn’t wait to vote for Trump. Heroin overdoses in our local schools is epedemic. Trump was the only politician talking about going after this problem. MAGA!
Fully understand and agree, just surprised at that capability from the F-22.
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