Last night I caught an advertisment for a news show about Afghanistan. It showed footage of a barren wasteland, poor families with starving children. The voice over stated, "Afghanistan, a nation of drugs..."
When I saw and heard that, it was like I saw the future of America in a libertarian utopian world. I remembered that most nations that openly produce and consume drugs are poverty, disease-ridden 3rd, 4th, and 5th world nations that are always seeking assistance from other countries.
It was not a pretty picture, but one that I believe will come about if the drug-crazed libertarians ever gain power. If that day ever comes, I hope it's long after I'm gone.
Provide statistics and references for this generalization.
Afghanistan has grown poppies for centuries. What has driven that country into poverty and disease is corrupt leadership, continuous wars, culture and religion that is not conducive to entrepreneurial capitalism, and in fact discourages it.
Our founding fathers grew acres of hemp. Was the USA a poverty, disease-ridden 3rd, 4th, and 5th world nation after the revolution?
Yeh, Afganistan was a booming mecca of a country, not unlike the U.S., until drugs came and dried it all up. Thriving cities turned into wastelands, left without a trace.