Monday 13 September 2010

Smack, Dope, Write Your Own Title To This One

Soldiers smuggling heroin out of Afghanistan.

Read that one over again. And again. And again. And again.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous13 September 2010 at 15:31

    Why isn't this a huge story?

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  2. David Lindsay13 September 2010 at 15:37

    The story is that it is not a story. We no longer find these things remarkable.

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  3. bight13 September 2010 at 15:51

    It's not.

    There's a long history of (a small number of) soldiers being involved in organised crime. Drug smuggling is far from uncommon which is hardly surprising given that soldiers have a propensity to be stationed around the world and thus can access the stuff at source.

    We have Military Police for a reason, after all. I'm surprised you're surprised. Everyone knows this.

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  4. David Lindsay13 September 2010 at 15:55

    It's the context. Stamping out the heroin trade has been among the numerous reasons, all of them bogus, that have at some point been given for the war in Afghanistan.

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  5. Mr. Piccolo13 September 2010 at 22:41

    Similar things happened during the Vietnam War and the Soviet War in Afghanistan. We all know how those adventures turned out.

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