A Real War on Drugs. Afghanistan provides us an opportunity to kill drugpushers on a large scale. Large numbers of savage mountain scum in Afghanistan are raising poppies to create heroin to poison Americans and other Westerners. They justify their criminal monstrousness by pretending that they 'have no choice'. Bull. There is always a choice of whether to commit crime or not, be it on the part of kids in American slums who can join gangs and push dope or go to school and seek work in the legitimate economy; or of Afghan, Peruvian, and other farmers in Third World hellholes who prefer to poison foreigners to taking other measures to support themselves — such as to stop having children they can't afford.
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Tho we might have trouble waging fullscale military war against our own drug criminals, we have no such problem in eradicating Afghan drug criminals. We can bomb them, strafe them, napalm them — even nuke them, literally, with tactical nuclear weapons that can wipe out an entire valley's drug crops in 10 minutes. Thus can we show evil Afghans that drugs bring death; they do not afford savages a way to make a living by killing Western weaklings who use drugs to fill their empty lives, and all too often ruin their lives for decades or forfeit them to chemical poisoning, poisoning that could not occur were it not for beasts in Third World countries who rationalize away their criminality as "just trying to survive".
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Oh? If you're trying to survive, you'd better stop growing drugs and exporting them to the West, because the West has the wherewithal to kill you all, in the fields, warehouses, factories, and homes you use to grow, process, and export drug "crops". You're doing it for the wife and kids? What if your crime gets your wife and kids killed, as they are exterminated in the fields they are harvesting or in the transshipment operations they are working in? Then you won't have to do anything for them but bury their lifeless remains. And once they're dead, the pressure is off. You don't have to make a lot of money to support a large family, just enuf to provide for yourself — if, that is, you manage somehow to escape the helicopter gunships, fighter-bombers, and cruise missiles that appear suddenly from nowhere and destroy everything around.
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If it comes down to sacrificing Afghan poppy farmers or Americans poisoned by heroin, I have no problem choosing to have Afghan criminals die. No trouble whatsoever.
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For thousands of years, civilized peoples have had to defend against rapacious mountain savages. The best defense is indeed a good offense.
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It's very hard to develop a life-ravaging or even life-ending heroin problem with no heroin, isn't it? Every person involved in the heroin trade, from poppy farmer to international kingpin to small-time hood on the street, should be killed. That is what a real war on drugs would look like. And a real war on drugs would without question actually work. Our present make-believe "war on drugs", mere shadow boxing with gangsters and letting them ruin the lives of hundreds of thousands of people for the sake of profit, hasn't worked and will never work. We are suffering the consequences of a one-sided war in which the bad guys are free to kill without mercy and without restraint, but the good guys have to play by the rules. The rules of war, real war, are very different from the rules of due process for individual crimes. In war, you are entitled to kill everyone engaged in hostilities against you. You don't need to arrest them. You don't need to try them. You don't need to build a case or find witnesses willing to testify who cannot be intimidated or killed by the criminal class. You see people in a field tending or harvesting poppies, you kill them. Simple. Quick. Utterly and absolutely effective.
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A law-enforcement approach to eradication of drugs is somewhere between extremely difficult and absolutely impossible. But methodical, military extermination of drug farmers and their contacts would work perfectly.
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Essentially nobody is willing to face certain death from an irresistible, massive, methodical, military machine that can kill everybody it finds in an entire agricultural region, just to make a living. The U.S. military is not a drug kingpin. We have firepower the drug cartel can only dream about. The drug war must be militarized.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 3,125 — for Israel.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 6:08 AM