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| quote: | Originally posted by George Smiley
You have to completely forget about cocaine production, that has nothing to do with Afghan production of opium. It's a completely different situation. This thread was about the stability of Afghanistan, and how their economy (and the livelihoods of its population) is dependent on the production of a commodity NATO forces would like to decrease. This option allows for production to continue but also to achieve the aims of NATO countries in removing the product from their domestic markets (and along with it some of the social ills it causes - not that that would be a solution in itself by any means)
Please try and understand the concept of farming subsidies in this... |
Cocain and Heroine production are very similar.
Both countries are developmentaly challenged, over run with local war lords, in the middle of a civil war, exporting large amounts of a recreational drug to fund weapons purchases, and thier farmers are growing the most profitable crop they can.
If you're going to propose a solution to a problem you need to consider similar cases while tailoring to best solve the problem in question.
The goal of buying up opium will increase the amount grown. The farmers will grow all they can to make sure the NATO subsidies are used up and then will grow more to meet the demand of the addicts around the world.
The product is not removed from any market because there is still a demand for it.
Try thinking of another example, like AIDS drugs. If I tried to buy all the AIDS drugs in the world the producers would just make more and more until I ran out of money and then they would keep producing to sell to legitimate customers.
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