[Peace-discuss] Re: Peace-discuss Digest, Vol 43, Issue 33

[Roger Epperson]

Unless there are two Roger Epperson's (I'd like to
meet the second one), I think that you are confusing
the Roger Epperson's who wrote the Blackwater/U of I
connection aricle in the New Gazette with the article
that you reference about poppy production in
Afghanistan. If you have a chance, give me the source
of the post and I will try to track down the author
for you. CIAO!
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> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:01:16 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Poppy production in
> Afghanistan
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> I just wanted to correct one possible problem in
> Roger Epperson's recent post regarding poppy
> production in Afghanistan:
>    
>   Epperson wrote:
>    
>   "The prisons of Afghanistan, like those in
> Colombia, Lebanon, Pakistan, and even the United
> States itself, will soon be filled with lower level
> “mules” and other bit part players, as such U.S.
> “drug war” assistance is unlikely to have much
> effect on the level of drug trafficking or on the
> major players involved. In fact, such work in
> Afghanistan has been disrupted by the ongoing war
> (that Blackwater also profits from), which has
> actually led to a vast expansion of opium
> production, even though the country was already the
> source of 90% of the world’s opium prior to the 2001
> U.S. invasion. Once again, the “drug war” has proven
> to be a great jobs program for white males looking
> for a lucrative position, but a total failure as
> public policy. In fact, until Iraq came along, the
> “drug war” was the most costly lost U.S. war since
> Vietnam. Is it any wonder that the foremost
> advocates of the “drug war” are the mostly white
> police and prison guards who benefit from the job
> security
>  it provides them, even as it fosters the violence
> of blackmarkets and acts as a price support
> mechanism for organized crime?"
>    
>   This chart is posted at http://icga.blogspot.com/.
> Obviously, it reflects the Taliban's suppression of
> poppy production prior to their removal.
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