Another Soldier Comes Home…#4121

  By Stuart O'Neill | July 17, 2008 10:28 am - 10:28 am | Uncategorized


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7 Responses to Another Soldier Comes Home…#4121

  1. Darrell Prows says:
    July 17, 2008 7:18 pm at 7:18 pm

    Two steps to end the bloodbath:

    (1) Wrap it up in Iraq and head for the exits; &

    (2) Legalize heroin so that we don’t just transefer the pain to Afghanistan. I remember the way that those old boys chewed up the Russians and that they paid for it all then (as now) with “narcodollars”.

  2. Pamela Leavey says:
    July 19, 2008 1:17 pm at 1:17 pm

    Darrell

    Legalizing heroin, does not in my opinion solve the issue with why we are in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban and al Queda.

    The war on drugs sure as hell is not working, but legalizing heroin is bad idea in my book.

  3. Darrell Prows says:
    July 19, 2008 3:41 pm at 3:41 pm

    Pamela: Legalizing freedom is seldom, if ever, the worst thing we could do.

    But the point here is that the Takiban is a military/political group funded by heroin trafficking. Kill the source of funding and the Taliban would suffer the only blow we can deliver that it can never recover from.

    Sometimes our thinking is too linear and compartmentalized for our own good.

  4. Pamela Leavey says:
    July 19, 2008 5:12 pm at 5:12 pm

    Darrell

    I somehow doubt that the junkie trying to stay clean looks at legalizing as freedom. Just a thought.

  5. Darrell Prows says:
    July 19, 2008 6:44 pm at 6:44 pm

    Whether we make safe stuff available at a dispensary or keep shiping money to the Taliban by the boatload, don’t addicts face the same situation either way.

  6. Pamela Leavey says:
    July 19, 2008 7:18 pm at 7:18 pm

    Darrell

    I don’t know honestly. I just don’t think legalizing that one particularly is the answer.

  7. Darrell Prows says:
    July 20, 2008 11:33 am at 11:33 am

    I would note that Obama mentioned on T.V. this morning the connection between the funding of the Taliban and Opium farming in Afghanistan. He didn’t seem to have an answer either. I hope it’s not going to be the failed notion of eradication because that has backfired since day one. If we legalized, the U.S. government could just buy up the whole crop and knock out the black market distribution system.