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Brits embark on another imperialist folly
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Wednesday January 04, 2006 17:23 by John McGowan
Thousands of poor farmers struggling in the barren wastelands of Afghanistan are poised for an invasion of over 3,400 British troops in the coming weeks. The troops are intent on ruining the farmer’s livelihoods by destroying their crops. Without the money made from selling their cash crops the rural population will be forced into even more harsh levels of poverty. Many will be forced to pack their things and leave for an uncertain future at the mercy of rigid immigration laws and criminal gangs in the West. Others will stay and resist the occupiers using whatever force they can get their hands on. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4I have been told by an Afghani that the Unholy Alliance of the US, England and Israel are busy stealing diamonds in Afghanistan.
why can these farmers not just grow food instead? they could then sell the surplus and use that money for their families.
And if the British military are targeting a link in the heroin chain then fair play to them.
It can hardly be described as being imperialistic trying to stop a drug that kills thousands of young vulnerable people every year, many of them Irish!
Maybe you should be asking yourself, what are the forces of the Irish Republic doing to stop the heroin trade rather than picking the sametired old rhetoric.
i think people should be allowed to grow poppy and coca if they wish and who is to say what one is allowed or not allowed to consume if they want.. laws stink plus its their country, its not for the imperialist west to tell poor little countries what they can grow or not grow. they don't tell us what evil weapons we can and can't make..
Rooster, I presume you think it would be fine for an African intervention force to bomb every arms factory in western Europe, to stop the evil trade that devastates their communities? And then an Asian army can bomb all the tobacco farms in the United States?