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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: manalagi who wrote (58820)7/19/2009 7:06:46 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
The goal is to stabilize the country so it won't become a Taliban training ground. Whether we can actually do this is an open question.

The theory is that we if we provide the villagers enough security they will disown the Taliban. But we also have to deal with the question of where their income is going to come from if we don't let them grow opium poppies.

This is much like the problem we faced in Columbia with the threat to the government from the Drug Cartels controlling the peasants in the jungle who grew coke for their labs--except the Taliban presents its world view in religious terms as well as economic terms. In Columbia we were able to turn the situation around.
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