Grassroots Daily show v.8: oil and opium edition.

It was good after about 4:30 when you guys got it together. Stick to one subject. It seems rambly if you don’t.

Well America still does not get it as we are in Vietnam again!  Change you cannot believe in.  Mr. Dewine approved 24 million dollars to the Taliban in April 2001 because they supposedly destroyed the Poppy Crop.  Sen. DeWine financed 911 and America’s drug policy continues to frustrate our war in Afghanistan.  Please try to Read and Be Informed.

The province served as both a fighters’ haven and the center of Afghanistan’s poppy production, providing rich revenue streams for the war against the central government and the Western forces that protect it.
The sweep was not entirely fruitless. In several houses, Afghan soldiers found sacks of poppy seeds, which they carried outside, slashed open with knives and set on fire. In a few houses, they found processed opium and heroin. But the Taliban’s fighters had proved elusive again.

Columbia, Afghanistan – we try the same thing over and over without result.  America cannot afford it.  Former Senator Dewine was a big proponent of this type of aid.
 

A report by the group, Human Rights Watch, detailed the activities of the paramilitary successor groups, which feed off Colombia’s cocaine trade. The drug trade remains lucrative despite Washington’s channeling of more than $5 billion of security and antinarcotics aid to Colombia, making it a top recipient of United States aid outside the Middle East.