Sunday, April 22, 2007

For those who have forgotten about Afghanistan

The forgotten war, this is a picture of the country we are trying to control.

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(stolen from this journal of Chris Brown who describes his adventures in Kandahar)

Is it any wonder country after country in century after century has been defeated in their imperial desires here?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's an opium war. This will never end as long as prohibition goes on. Regulate the opium, people need it for medicine.

I prefer cannabis, however.

ellroon said...

Give these people something else they can make money on... anything.. that will give them an economy. Nothing can beat the poppies at this time.

Anonymous said...

I think it's all about the pipelines...

ellroon said...

And the pipelines. Oil is a kinda drug to the neocons, isn't it?

Anonymous said...

Lotsa people sniff gas when they got nothing else.

ellroon said...

Lotsa people sniff gas when they got nothing else.

Well to good ol' oil men like Bush and Cheney, there IS nothing else.