Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Afghan Leaders Criticize U.S. Airstrikes On Taliban Drug Labs



Washington Post: Afghan leaders in Helmand criticize U.S. airstrikes on Taliban drug labs

KABUL — A newly announced campaign of U.S. and Afghan airstrikes against Taliban-run narcotic centers was met with alarm and criticism Tuesday from political leaders in Helmand province — the heart of Afghanistan’s huge opium trade — where officials said 10 such air attacks were carried out in the past week.

Some legislators and provincial representatives expressed worries that civilians could be harmed. Others dismissed the campaign, announced by U.S. military officials Monday, as a dramatic but misplaced effort to showcase Washington’s determination to go after insurgent bastions and criminal activities as part of its new military strategy.

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Previous Post: U.S. Launches Airstrikes Targeting The Taliban's Opium Production Facilities In Afghanistan (November 21, 2017)

WNU Editor: Instead of going into the fields and cutting the crop .... just target the locations where the drug is made and stored. My sense is that these strikes were effective .... and some are not happy.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

The Afghani leader better do something.

Like telling these so called leaders to stop their grousing.

At some point if he can't do that ... pull out.

Having to switch from opium to so other crop is no different than farmers in England being put out of the business of growing wheat at the turn of the century. They grew different things and still made a living.

It is time for the Pashtuns to man up and stop beating women and molesting dancing boys.

fred said...

You really need to read up on our attempts to change the crops grown there and the special troops whose job it was to eliminate those crops and why that has failed, time after time...not unlike what we tried in Columbia for the cocaine crops, which also has failed.

If we are there to fight jihadists, ie, Taliban, do we leave because of the opium crops? if so, perhaps we should not have gone in when we did, so many years ago.

Roger said...


My my my. Obviously cutting into some locals' paychecks.

Roger

Anonymous said...

Nice video. Love it.

Unknown said...

"we leave because of the opium crops"

No, that would be the straw that broke the camel's back.

- You have Afghan trainees that desert when trained in America.
We should know the percentages & maybe it is not a big deal.

- You have an Army that does not fight well.

- You have a duplicitous ally, Pakistan.

Leaving might create enough of a problem that Pakistan, Iran or Russian will clean things up without libtard Obama ROE. The ROE have been loosened up. We'll see if they work. The Taliban will probably persevere knowing that in 3 to 7 years there will be another libtard president, who will enact libtard ROE and bug out soon thereafter.

Probably what the Iranians & Pakistanis will do is set up a puppet government and keep some terrorists on a short leash. That would not be a good outcome, but at least we would not hear the bleats of the ___ _______ stupid people like Jay or lose soldiers. A few more civilians would die in America, but that is the price of liberal policies. Kind of like Holiday Market Massacres in German due to the open Borders idiot Merkel.

Merkel, Trudeau & Obama are 3 of a kind.

Best case scenario is the Pakistanis and Iranians will go at it over Afghanistan, but that probably will not happen. They'll more likely have spheres of influence like Britain and Russia had.

- You have politicians you cannot name names like Iran or Pakistan. Trump has named Pakistan, but I have not seen movement in a while. The Pakistanis actually stopped supplies to American troops in the past outside of their extracurricular activities of arming and sheltering the Taliban.

- You had the blowhard former president Karzai, whose family stole something like a billion dollars in aid and then he rips the U.S every chance he gets.

- Remember Afghanistan was the good war until Iraq was over, then it became the bad war. So libtards bedevil us on that. So being out of Afghanistan will enable us to focus on politics. We have so much to do in the U.S., but maybe the sex scandals will clear out the liberals for us.

fred said...

We were well on the way to wiping out Taliban when Bush diverted military to invade Iraq...if you do not know that, AS, you ought to look into it

Unknown said...

"We were well on the way to wiping out Taliban..."

The Taliban had secure sanctuaries in the FATA and were supported by the Pakistani ISI. With such sanctuaries there is no way we were going to wipe them out.

The two Battles of SWAT is whereby the Pakistani terrorist government made a show of fighting the Taliban. They gave up, lost some low level soldiers not related to them, and kept the billion or so dollars a year in US aid.

I suggest that you do something besides look up free pornography and read the NYT, a former newspaper. The latter is probably worse for your mental health.

You ought to look into it

I suggest:

Charlies Wilson's War
The Looming Tower
Operation Darkheart.

I mean you should read these books. What else are you going to do? Look up more free porn? It is not like you are going to go to Hell, if you do not look up and view 1,000,000 pictures of naked white women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War:_The_Extraordinary_Story_of_the_Largest_Covert_Operation_in_History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Looming_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Heart

Jay Farquharson said...

LMFAO,

US Drug Wars.