[heartwood]

Right now our soldiers in Afghanistan are forbidden from damaging poppy crops. They must walk right by the fields, right out in the open like wheat in Kansas, knowing what it is and where it’s headed.

That's just fine by me. No more War on Drugs where they're grown. No more War on Drugs on the border. No more War on Drugs on the streets, or in people's homes.

How long would it take for drug lords to settle down into to some sort of civilized place? Decades? A couple centuries? Bootleggers did it. Vikings became Normans, who became French and English nobility.

Fifty years of this corrupting War on Drugs - it's not working out too well.

[Future Snake Eater]

It’s more than a WoD thing. Taliban use it for funding. They also like to come out in force to defend the crops when we destroy them. This could initiate direct combat instead of insurgency operations. Yet we don’t apply the pressure and try to play the game by the enemy’s rules.

[Emperor Palpatine]

"How long would it take for drug lords to settle down into to some sort of civilized place? Decades? A couple centuries? Bootleggers did it"



Well, in this case.....one generation from the rum-running to the White House.........