Hooray! The U.S. will begin plans to draw down their forces in Iraq.
Booo! The president just signed off on more than 30,000 troops to be sent to Afghanistan.
This is essentially double-speak. The American people want all of their children home from the middle east. Not simply to have them moved into the house next door which has become as dangerous as Iraq once was. Afghanistan has been producing opium at the highest levels ever since the U.S. started dropping bombs in 2001.
With a global economic crisis on the horizon the one crop that doesn’t seem to lose its luster is the narcotic type. The U.S. poured all kinds of resources into Iraq to wrest control of the petroleum production. Is this troop surge in Afghanistan for the purpose of controlling the opium trade.
If so at least we will have access to awesome painkillers when the shit hits the fan.
