If America is truly fighting a "war on drugs," why is it that in the 13 years we've been in Afghanistan, no effort has been made to destroy the poppy crops that end up destroying US and European lives?
About a third of the economy in Afghanistan is based on the opium industry. Many ideas have been tested to change this, but so far no good solution exists. If you have a good idea you will be rewarded.
Perhaps we should eradicate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_somniferum ?
[ If America is truly fighting a “war on drugs,” why is it that in the 13 years we’ve been in Afghanistan, no effort has been made to destroy the poppy crops that end up destroying US and European lives? ]
Because the war on drugs is a Big Government / U.N. Scam?
Cause they’re selling it to us so we can sell it and finance other stuff.
I would guess that brightly-colored poppy flowers are visible from the air.
All it would take is a UAV outfitted with a crop-dusting attachment, to spray herbicide on the poppy fields.
The message would be: you plant cabbages, we leave you alone. You plant poppies, you lose your crop, and your field will be un-plantable for a year until the herbicide decays.