[Marxism] Afghan-Pakistan war council in DC prepares more escalation

[Shane Mage]

On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Fred Feldman wrote:
> http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/410781/afghan_pakistan_war_council
> Afghan-Pakistan War Council
> posted by Robert Dreyfuss on 02/23/2009 @ 09:10am
>
>
> ...The real solution lies in getting the vast majority of  
> Afghanistan's
> pro-Taliban and Taliban-leaning warlords, tribal chiefs, village  
> leaders,
> and others, along with a hefty chunk of the Taliban leadership, to  
> make a
> deal. As I reported in myNation feature last December, "Obama's Afghan
> Dilemma" , the core of Obama's strategy is based on the conviction  
> that the
> Taliban won't negotiate now because they think they're winning.


So the "real solution" is--giving Afghanistan back to the Taliban (in  
"coalition" with their Afpak-govt partners in the heroin trade)!!  Of  
course not a word about the only real solution--the absolute necessity  
to eliminate the heroin trade by the legalization of opium-poppy  
cultivation and the formation of an Afghan-controlled  manufacturing  
and exporting authority for the purchase (at above-market prices) of  
opium, its processing into morphine, and its distribution as medicine  
throughout the world.  Once the Afghan peasantry and working class  
have a big tangible interest in a stable and protective government the  
Taliban will vanish like they did in the brief interval before Bush  
imposed Karzai's narcotrafficer Pathan regime on an unwilling loya  
jirga that wanted
only to form a national unity government under the former king, Zakir  
Shah!


Shane Mage

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