Posted on 04/26/2016 3:05:28 PM PDT by Cheerio
The Brookings Institution reported that Barack Obama ended opium eradication efforts in Afghanistan in 2009, effectively green lighting Afghan opium production and the Afghan heroin trade. By 2010, all US efforts to eradicate Afghan opium ceased. It has been US policy to allow Afghan opium growing and the heroin trade since. US heroin deaths tripled from 3,036 in 2010 to 10,574 in 2014 as a result of the Afghan narcotics trade being green lighted by Obama during his first year in office.
Vanda Felbab-Brown at the Brookings Institution. a liberal think tank that often writes reports supporting the Obama Administration, penned "No Easy Exit: Drugs and Counternarcotics Strategies in Afghanistan" in advance of the April 19th, 2016 UN Summit on Drugs (UNgass). The report is notable for what it omits, which is any mention of the heroin epidemic, the worst ever illicit drug epidemic in history, or any of the tens of thousands of Americans killed by heroin since Obama took office. - See more at: http://www.pravdareport.com/opinion/columnists/20-04-2016/134214-obama_heroin_epidemic-0/#sthash.wkbKjjst.dpuf
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In the sense that morphine is derived from the opium poppy, then enhanced with marginal technique into heroin. But yeah, what you say was the gist of it.
As an aside, and I suppose I must rehash the story of how CSPAN ran Walker and Trump NH speeches back-to-back:
"Mid-summer 2015. Scott and Donald were up in NH at separate gatherings. CSPAN had them on sequentially. Walker was first. He sounded and looked like a mayor of a big Midwest town auditioning for a bigger job - loosened the tie near the end, had some weird .ppt dimly lit in the background, people were golf-clapping.Then Trump at a medium-sized convention-type room in some hotel with natural lighting. No PowerPoint, just a mike and a podium. And he was out of the gate faster than any racehorse alive: Trade, immigration, trade, Israel, trade, heroin abuse in NH, borders, Bobo sux rox, the insane imbalanced deficit, bringing new players to the trade table, DC lawlessness, the GOPe, the insanity of big govt, the unsustainability of US non-working who are not counted in workforce (even mentioned the disparately-afflicted mau mau!), wham wham wham wham wham wham wham. Crowd went from pleasantly attentive to a fervor.
The distinction between the two was as unexpectedly vast as it was brilliantly conceived. And I like Walker - still do. As Mayor of Wisconsin."
I was instantaneously impressed with Trump including heroin abuse as a main topic of his NH stump speeches, and then he correctly tied it to what fabulists like Bobo and Fareed -- not giving a damn that their policies ignore the unsustainability of US non-working -- are doing to this country.
Trump was compassionate, not even a bit judgmental, and firm in his resolve to do what he could as President to resolve the problem.
“.... burn the crop was the best bet.”
And how did that work out?
if they were doing heroin and froze to death, trust me they didn’t feel a thing
Eh, I don't know the full answer Bob, but I'll support Trump any way I can help him, help them. Gotta change this post-America mindset first and foremost. It's odd - even to my way of thinking - that Fareed's screed is intrinsically linked to the problem, but it damn sure is.
I’m not too hopped up about marijuana, but I think I’d rather see folks on it than heroin or prescription opiates.
whether those pain killers are illegal or prescribed is that they have all these folks saying I’ve got pain and getting all doped up?
I am a firm believer that prescribed drugs should be a 2 or 3 day thing, then ibuprofen, motrin or aspirin is the way.
I can’t imagine a person on hard opiates for long periods. Wouldn’t it be like being a zombie?
I’ve broken my right wrist twice once with pins, my left forearm, my right ankle, numerous ribs over the years and been burned quite a number of times. At one time I also had serious back problems where as a workaholic I couldn’t get out of bed for 2 days. The pain was excruciating but I only took over the counter pain meds for that one.
I don’t know if I have a high threshold on pain or what but never felt pain after a tooth pulled or root canal.
Yet, every single episode above the doctor/dentist prescribed pain killers, rarely did I fulfill the prescription because I knew I wouldn’t need it and when I did the docs always said take it until the prescription is done.
That I think is how they hook all these people on these drugs
If you pay cash for it, it’s a cash crop, right? I don’t think the Afghanis care where it goes on way or another.
I kinda meant if there were some gubmint way it could be controlled....oh fuggedaboudit! Heroin is heroin and nothing else and nothing good comes from opium.
We well meaning Americans intervene in a bad situation & only manage to screw things up a lot worse.
Many people living in pain, many for life. Opiates are one of the most effective solutions. Better to be a zombie than in pain. Been there.
Same here. After I had my wisdom teeth out, they gave me meds that made me so loopy I could barely negotiate the stairs. I took one and thought, "Yeah, no..." and switched to Tylenol.
Whatever. I just don’t like the son of a bitch and you can see that in many of my posts.
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