This is what so many people don't understand about the Taliban. It's not about religion it's all about money and control. The only time during my deployment we got hit regularly was when we started fucking with their drugs and guns. I often wonder if we could have been out of there years ago if we'd simply outbid the Taliban and bought the poppy from the farmers instead of burning and outlawing it. We could have created a national industry for them, legitimized it, and benefitted from it ourselves. Couldnt have cost us any more than what weve dumped there the last decade.

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