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Originally Posted by Bookman
Afghanistan did nothing wrong except cease the harvest of opium. We went to war in Afghan and there was no Bin Laden or anything but the Opium harvest is in full swing.
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I am loathe to go to war but I would have advicated going to war in Afghanistan just to remove the Taliban from power.
The thing was, the Taliban was getting their opium farmers to stop producing opium (drugs are against God's law). This was one of the reason why the US was willing to grant millions to Afghanistan...
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May 2001 - Secretary of State Colin Powell gives $43 million in aid to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry farmers who are starving since the destruction of their opium crop in January on orders of the Taliban regime. [Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2001].
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