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Originally Posted by Joe C
It's time to get some drones filled with Agent Orange or some other defoliant and hit the poppy fields.
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Originally Posted by Bandb875
The poppy fields should have been destroyed before we left. Didn't do it then, do it now!
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As good as it may sound on the surface, it's a really, really bad idea in reality. The last thing Afghanistan needs now, is to destroy their primary source of income, regardless of how one views on how it is derived. Talk about opening the floodgates to nefarious terrorist groups that have money, to move in and partner with the warlords, just remove the only way the average poor Afghani has to make a few bucks. Talk about utter chaos and the terrorist threats that would develop toward the rest of the world - that's the quickest way to do it. Which is exactly the reason even we didn't make a big push, to destroy all of the poppy fields.