Originally Posted by
David Jamieson
CIDA or the Canadian International Development Association tried to stem heroin production in afghanistan some timne ago by offering alternative crops such as food stuffs.
the people were swayed away at the time. This was during soviet occupation.
the reason being that the russian mobs controlled a lot of the heroin there due to the convenient occupation by the soviet military, and between them and the brits, they supplied the world.
who here thinks that there aren't soldiers who have direct relations to gang activities? Raise your hand? OK? Fail! This basic principle applies to all fighting forces in the region. there are corrupted ones who right now are making arrangments to move drugs or booty back into the west. Now, this amount is fairly insignificant and amounts to only a few kilos. But when it's a general moving stash? You know he's got a hercules filled with it! lol
Just hypothesizing, but has anyone thought about how exactly is ith atht such huge volumes of drugs can just come and go out of countries when billions and billions of dollars are being spent on surveillance and policing of these very activities. is it possible that criminals are smarter tahn all law enforcement or does the element of corruption have a bigger part to play in it all.
In my opinion, corruption is one of the pillars of power. It's almost as if it cannot be avoided in an institutionalized society where the mechanisms become so large, abstract and complicated, that it is not difficult to find a quite place within them to carry out operations that are contrary to what those institutions stand for.
just sayin...
The highest ranking person involved in gang activities I've seen here in USAREUR has been a Staff Sergeant, who is now a Private, last I checked.
Nobody is loading drugs in planes in Afghanistan. That stuff is checked by a number of people. There is gang activity in the military, and we're doing everything we can to get rid of it.
And generals dealing heroin? Really... c'mon. They really really really don't need the money.
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