It has always seemed unfair that even in times of war we in the west fight within certain rules but our enemy’s are under no such constraints, so its pleasing to see that the Americans are starting to fight dirty, in future gathering evidence admissible in court and such nonsense in the battlefield has been dropped.
Opium dealers in Afghanistan who make millions from poppy sales and then divert large quantity’s of that money to insurgents and terrorist groups for weapons to fight us with are no longer protected by said laws, 50 of their top opium barons have been put on a kill or capture list, this has been approved by the Senate, because of the huge sums involved, we are talking tens of millions of dollars the Taleban is able to keep the insurgency going.
Killing of their leaders in targeted assassination’s will hopefully make the poppy growers think twice. trying to gather evidence and then prove it in a Afghani court is time and manpower consuming, and ultimately pointless because of the corruption over there. Well done the Senate a few more initiatives like this and we could be out of there sooner than we think.
Isn't it ironic that the Taliban with their ultra-conservative, strict version of Islam, are in the business of harvesting and selling drugs. Whatever next, malt whiskey? Special Brew?
ReplyDeleteGood idea to target the drug barons. Get rid of these vile people, strangle their money supply, and consign the Taliban to the history books.