How Invasion of Afghanistan Worked for Opium Production ¹⁰

I’ve thought about this and it is so obvious; we’re in Iraq because of oil, control the region, control the production, and obviously we’re in Afghanistan because of opium. The night, I was flipping through television channels and I saw this comedian, Eddie Griffin and he touched on something that had not occurred to me. The United States owes China a lot of money and China apparently has the largest population of opium users. So it would make sense, we’re there to control the production of opium. The Govt. would never admit it and it is probably all underground, as was the CIA smuggling of cocaine in the past. I’ve heard, it is their main crop, the farmers need to do something, what a load of crap that is. Unfortunately, these days, more people are too insecure, afraid to lose their SUV or their ipad, they’ll never speak out; they’ve a herd mentality. A while back a friend of mine gave me “Pocket World in Figures, 2010 Edition”. He subscribes to the Economist and received this book as part of his subscription. It is amazing, in 2007 the US defense spending was the most out of all countries at $552.6 billion, next in line was UK at $63.3 billion, then France, $60.7 billion, China $46.2 billion and Germany at $42.1 billion. What a massive amount of money. Sadly, so many people are misinformed in regards to drugs, marijuana as a schedule 1 drug, apparently worse than cocaine and amphetamines. So much of law enforcement wants the war on drugs to continue because it funds their fancy equipment and salaries. As well, many people are against marijuana and they have no idea why it is actually illegal, they think it has something to do with getting high, as opposed to the real, commercial reasons. The Navy produced a movie called, “Hemp for Victory” during WW II, however, from what I know it was never aired, but can be found on Youtube. Another category of interesting figures is prison population. The total prison population, for the latest available year. #1, The United States at 2,310,984, with China next in line at 1,565,771, then Russia @ 887,723, Brazil @ 440,013 and in 5th place, India @ 373,271. I realize China might have some strict laws, but how many people in the USA are in jail for non-violent crimes? I recall doing a paper for community college, back in 1991 and back then the average spent per inmate was $35,000 per year. Let us not forget, prisons are a “for profit” business. Sadly, if we let people out of jail for crimes such as possession of a plant, the amount of money the country would save, still would not go to those in need, it would end up in the pockets of politicians I’m sure.

The older I get, the more I learn, the more I realize ignorance is bliss. I’m glad I don’t have children, to a certain degree, as much as the thought is grand, I’m not sure I want to bring children into this world. Corruption at every level, people rarely help their neighbors, and people are so complacent it is amazing. All in the name of insecurity / money. Will we ever get over ourselves?

Thanks for your remarks and your reply.

You are so “right-on”. Not long ago, I saw, on television, an author talking about people being complacent. She goes on to explain, during the “Great Depression” in the 1920′s, there was 4,700 or some-odd demonstrations/riots, yet in 2008 there was only around 20 demonstrations. People are afraid to lose their SUV’s, their iPods or do anything which may make them appear vulnerable, as we all truly are.

When are the politicians going to “get” that not everyone wants the US to storm into their country and wage war in the name of “peace”, “capitalism”, or whatever it is. What would be the reaction if Pakistani troops stormed into the US, attempting to fix broken levees in Louisiana? They feel as though they’re doing the right thing and our country isn’t competent enough to do the job, apparently. Although I don’t think we storm into other countries just because we think we’re doing the right thing, there are certainly ulterior motives, which are the real reasons. Why did we invade Iraq? Why are we still there? I’m almost thinking we’re in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya now because all the talk of armageddon. If it happens, we’ve got many troops in the region, we’ll be in a good spot to fight for the oil. And Libya has some nuclear communities around 13,000 feet with excellent climate. I wouldn’t be surprised if the elite are building bunkers in the area in case something really goes down.

One thing due for change, but not sure will happen, the margin between the wealthy and the rest of us has been shrinking. In 1998, the top 5 percent of the US population had more wealth than the remaining 95 percent of the population, collectively. Obama and his bail-outs, the amount of money they spent, giving to the already-rich a holes in this country, should have been giving to every US citizen but those with money. Of course all of the money would have poured back into the economy, as opposed to sitting in some wealthy a hole’s bank account.

Calgon… take me away!!