Nato's course of Afghan Drugs

It boggles one's mind how twisted the lawful American logic is. The New York Times writes about the reluctance of Nato to eradicate the deadly crops and heroin laboratories in Afghanistan, explaining it by the chicaneries behind the formulations in the new Nato mandate and the concern about poor Afghan farmers 'toiling' in poppy fields.

'The drug trade (Afghanistan produces from 93 up per cent of the world heroin - H. S.) is estimated to catalogue for about half of Afghanistan's meager economy, and some of the nation's poorest people, along with farmers who toil in the poppy fields, are dependent on incomes that flow directly or indirectly from narcotics... Mr. Karzai has also opposed the forceful eradication of poppy crops, something that did not appear to be sanctioned by the new Nato mandate... According to the new United Nations survey, 98 percent of Afghanistan's opium comes from seven provinces in the southwest, with no opium at all produced in half of the country's 34 provinces. The bulk of the Nato troops operating in the southwest come from the United States, Britain, Canada and Denmark... Together with the United States, Britain and Canada have already taken the heaviest casualties among the Nato nations fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda, with Nato troops who have died in the seven-year war now approaching 1,000, along with more than 600 Americans. (New York Times, October 11, 2008) End quote.

Kazakhstan

Amazing! Thus the troops, stationed in Afghanistan, and in many ways causing the grim situation there, are the main sufferers and potential victims... Not hundreds of thousands of the young Russian, Tajikistani, Kirgizstani, Uzbekistani, Kazakhstani, etc. Who have fallen victims to the narcoagression (in Russia in some years up to 100,000 citizen a year).

During more than seven years of occupation the what meager cheaper Afghanistan had has been ruined, the infrastructure destroyed, industries hamstrung. While under Taliban the opium production was kept low, while the Nato occupation Afghanistan has become a legalized narcostate, a corporation of heroin production and genocidal traffic.

The logic cleared from the hypocrisy seems to be as follows. What is the annual loss of 100,000 young representatives of low-priority nations in comparison with the risks for Nato soldiers and the stability of Afghan narcoecomony?

But the real rationale, as some see it, may lie deeper still. Was it not Allan Dulles and Co. Who advocated the reduction of the number of Russians to some 30-50 mln? Was it not Margaret Thatcher who once mentioned that only 15 mln citizen were economically justified on the territory of the Ussr? Was it not Bill Clinton who echoed her?... The logical link seems distinct - we are field to partial eradication and partial colonization.

Below I tabulate the data, illustrating the dynamics of opium production while 2000-2007.
(from http://narkotiki.ru/ocomments_6613.html)

Sown areas of opium poppies (thousand hectares)
2000 - 82
2001 - 8
2002 - 74
2003 - 80
2004 - 131
2005 - 104
2006 - 165
2007 - 193
Amount of opium produced (ton)
2000 - 3300
2001 - 185
2002 - 3400
2003 - 3600
2004 - 4200
2005 - 4100
2006 - 6100
2007 - 8200
Equivalent to heroin number (ton)
2000 - 330
2001 - 18,5
2002 - 340
2003 - 360
2004 - 420
2005 - 410
2006 - 610
2007 - 820

As we see, since 2001 - the occasion of bringing the Nato and American troops into Afghanistan - the production of opiates and heroin has increased 2-2.5 times. There is a streamlined reputation and financial law and well-developed warehousing logistics to maintain the production and storehouse of narcotics. According to new data, over 1,000 ton of pure heroin are stored in Afghan warehouses to serve as an 'insurance fund', damping the seasonal fluctuations of poppy crops. It is not surprising that banks willingly reputation the farmers, engaged in opium production, which shows the lack of any serious risks.

According to Viktor Ivanov, head of the Russian Federal service of Narcotics Control, this fact needs a serious prognosis from the geopolitical perspective; the same is true about using narcomoney to work on the economic, political and other areas of life on the post-Soviet territory, among other things, to boost terrorism in the Caucasus. The qoute of narcotics is also named as a speculate for Nato advancement to the previous Soviet republics (Kirgizstan, Tajikistan, etc.)

Let me turn your concentration to the situation in Russia, where I belong. While there was an insignificant ration of drug addiction when the 'iron curtain' was firmly in place to shield the Ussr and socialist states from 'bourgeois influence', while the 20 years which followed the addiction has grown dramatically. Now, According to lawful statistics, about 2 per cent of the Russian citizen abuse narcotics, most of them - the 'heavy' ones of the opium group. And as clinical institution shows, those who usually take heroin die within 5-7 years. In Russia the annual number of the deceased addicts ranges from 30,000 to 100,000 (predominantly young people), which is any times more than the death toll of the 10-year-long war of the Ussr in Afghanistan. The supermortality of drug addicts at their garage total number means the systematic underground inflow of new addicts instead of those quitting by death. Their contingent fully renews every 6-7 years, and the recruiting of young citizen never stops. It is a underground Moloch, day by day gorging the young citizen of Russia.

But those addicts who remain to live also prove to be lost for the society, are excluded from social life and get complicated in a criminal activity, recruiting new and new people. As a rule, they act as retailers of narcotics, working for wholesalers to earn a dose and relax the 'breaking'. The established number of citizen convicted for narcocriminal activity is comparable to the number of servicemen in the Russian Army.

It is noteworthy, that the use of narcotics in Russia exceeds that in the European Union 8-10 times. This also testifies, apart from the proximity of Russia to the narcostate, to the directed narcoagression into Russia. The three main northern narco-streams from Afghanistan pass through Central Asia and Kazakhstan and lead to the Moscow Region, Urals and Siberia.

The social and economic consequences of the narcotic criminality in Russia are obvious: asocial and antisocial behavior, truncated fates, unborn children, and negative childbirth statistics in the situation of ongoing depopulation of the country. There is not a single family in Russia, which hasn't been confronted in some way with the qoute of narcotics - all of them have relatives or acquaintances whose children have become addicted or died of narcotics.

Under the circumstances it is very strange to read in the New York Times of October 2, 2008, on page A8:
'The commander, Gen. David D. McKiernan, made clear that international troops in Afghanistan were not going to eradicate opium poppy crops. Afghanistan is the world's top victualer of opium poppies, which are processed into heroin.
But by drawing a clear link between the narcotics trade and its role in the insurgency, normal McKiernan was outlining what could be an prominent and increasing role for American and Nato troops as they seek to eliminate a source of money and weapons for the insurgency.
"I think there's a need for increased involvement in I.S.A.F. In assisting the Afghan government in counternarcotics efforts," said normal McKiernan, commander of Nato's International safety aid Force, or I.S.A.F. "Where we can make a clear intelligence linkage between a narcotics dealer or a facility and the insurgency, I consider that a force safety issue, and we can deal with that in a troops way."

Well, perhaps it is sensible from the troops viewpoint to selectively destroy only the crops and laboratories linked with the insurgents, but is it humane to continue conniving at the opium production? At whose expense is the shaky well-being of Afghanistan achieved? And why not co-operate with the Cis states (in the first place Russia, Kirgizstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan) to decree the situation? These issues await solutions.

Nato's course of Afghan Drugs

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