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Originally Posted by Cathar
Another thing, can some of the Americans please explain how the "Taliban" were the enemy, and made out to be such with respect to them supposedly supporting heroin production, when by 2001 the Taliban had cut heroin production in Afghanistan in half over what it had been at the start of 2000, and yet after the 2001 Afghanistan war, that by 2004 heroin production out of Afghanistan has been reported to now be four times that of what it was in 2000...
What's going on there?
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Remember that orthodox Islam has prohibitions on mind altering substances. The same justice system that they imposed that was allowing people to get beaten on the streets, public beheadings, etc, was being applied just as much to people growing drugs. The Northern Alliance was involved in the drug trade prior to US involvement in Afghanistan and simply put, jail is nowhere near the deterrent that a nearly summary executionis it comes to dissuading someone from getting involved in that stuff.