> A $3bil cash infusion is going to increase prices and create need for more product.
Right, because there's an overproduction crisis hitting Afghanistan now, and that's why we see a natural trend in farmers choosing to not grow opium, and rather produce other cash crops?
If it was worked into a "sound" "hearts and minds" (not the: kidnap "suspicious" people for torture in the night kind, but something more in the spirit of the words, not the practice, born from British lessons on administrating terror in India), you could probably buy up the opium for below market value. I don't think most farmers prefer to grow opium.
On the other hand, it is hard to see how such a scheme would be possible, as it is probably against the real political motivations behind being in Afghanistan (which most certainly are not: help most of the Afghan people).
3 billion on fighting terrorism? Sounds pretty cheap to me, considering:
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
> A $3bil cash infusion is going to increase prices and create need for more product.
Right, because there's an overproduction crisis hitting Afghanistan now, and that's why we see a natural trend in farmers choosing to not grow opium, and rather produce other cash crops?
If it was worked into a "sound" "hearts and minds" (not the: kidnap "suspicious" people for torture in the night kind, but something more in the spirit of the words, not the practice, born from British lessons on administrating terror in India), you could probably buy up the opium for below market value. I don't think most farmers prefer to grow opium.
On the other hand, it is hard to see how such a scheme would be possible, as it is probably against the real political motivations behind being in Afghanistan (which most certainly are not: help most of the Afghan people).