Tuesday, March 11, 2008

I Support the SHIT Out of Our Troops

I think the fat SUV drivers sporting yellow ribbon magnets don't have a fucking clue what "support our troops" means. I think opposing the war in Afghanistan may, in fact, be the strongest support we could possibly give to our troops.
There are ten times more civilians killed in Afghanistan than there are enemy combatants. What the fuck is that? The major selling point on this "war" is that it is protecting us from a terrorist breeding ground. So for every terrorist killed, how many potential terrorists are created? How many pissed off family members or loved ones with a whole new attitude about Canadians are there? How many terrorists are we creating for every terrorist killed?
Instead of dumping billions of dollars into a combat mission, why not allow an Afghan government to decide the best course of action; then train them to carry it out? If a freely elected Afghan government decides that the Taliban needs to be destroyed, then divert those billions into training and equipping the Afghan security forces to do so. That way they have the strength to go out and defend their OWN VALUES, not ours.
Another thing that needs to start getting a lot more attention is the fact that a full THIRD of the Afghan economy is based on illegal cultivation of opium poppies. NATO obviously sees this as a problem, and if you're a white, crew cut, fucking dickface asshole, the obvious solution is tearing up opium crops like there's no tomorrow. This, of course, is the current strategy. A strategy with the douche knob turned down significantly would be to consider the fact that there is a huge demand for opiate based pain killers such as morphine worldwide. HUGE demand, because currently most of the world's supply is grown in high tech, highly secured farms in developed countries, which takes it out of the price range for developing countries. Why not set up the Afghan economy with a sweet deal producing cheaper pain killers for the global market. This was in the John Manley report, and it's constantly ignored, why the fuck aren't more people talking about it?
I do support our troops, I support the shit out of our troops. In fact, sometimes I support our troops so hard that I SQUIRT our troops. I support (and squirt) them because I think they should be home, or involved with training an adequate security force in Afghanistan. What I don't support is the combat mission in Afghanistan, I think it is a pig-headed pathetic fuck up that is going no where and cranking out more terrorists every day than ever existed in Afghanistan prior to our involvement.

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