We Are The Mighty:
American aircraft have targeted drug producing facilities in Afghanistan for the first time under a new strategy aimed at cutting off Taliban funding, the top U.S. general in the country said Nov. 20.
Gen. John Nicholson said the raids were carried out Nov. 19 in the southern Helmand province, as part of the strategy unveiled by President Donald Trump in August. Afghan and American aircraft — including B-52 bombers dropping 2,000-pound bombs and F-22 attack planes — took part in the raids.
Nicholson said the insurgents generate an estimated $200 million a year from poppy cultivation and opium production.
In a news conference with the Afghan army chief of staff, Nicholson said the Taliban were becoming a criminal organization. “They fight so that they can keep profiting from narcotics trade and other criminal activities,” he said. He added that there are 13 major drug trafficking organizations in Afghanistan, of which seven are in Helmand.
Afghanistan’s opium production has nearly doubled this year compared to 2016, while areas that are under poppy cultivation rose by 63 percent, according to a joint survey released last week by the United Nations and the Afghan government.
Take that you bastards, plant tulips or we will be back.
That’s a whole lotta Vicodin !!!
Can’t we just crop dust those fields with round up?
When I was at Bearcat, there was a B-52 strike bout 15 or 20 clicks away, maybe further. We didn’t know about it beforehand, and I can remember thinking, “Damn – do they have earthquakes in Vietnam?”.
That’s as close as I ever want to get to one of those.
Weekly delivery please, ummm, yes, and fuck Obola.
Taking out Poppy Bush’s poppy fields. Go get ’em Mr. President.
Can we redirect a few flights to Mexican and central american drug labs?
And one flight to the capital of Venezuala just to get rid of that prick?
Lowell? Lowell? Where are you? Come in Lowell.
My son said the BUF was his favorite plane when he was a forward observer in Afghanistan. It could loiter all night long popping out 500 lb. guided bombs one at a time like a big ol PEZ dispenser.
B-52’s maiden voyage was the year before I was born.
You gotta be a brave individual to fly a plane that old.
I had a tour of one (elementary school class trip) when my Dad was stationed at Ramstein (60-63).
izlamo delenda est …
I hope they also dropped some Napalm on those Afghan drug labs as well.
DAMN! Hitting congressional kickbacks in the pocket!!! I LOVE it. President Trump is amazing.
I can hear the conversation today at the obongo Turkey Day table: “He’s destroying the right of the indigenous peoples of Afghanistan to self determination. He’s an imperialist! Pass the parsnips!”
It’s nice to have a President once again.
FYI: There are probably no original parts left on the B-52, to stay air worthy they must undergo inspection after each number of hours in the air. I think it’s about 750 but I am not sure. The engines are now Rolls-Royce engines, that give them better performance and greater range, use less fuel. they have the latest electronics equipment.
Bombing doesn’t do much but plow the fields for them. It’s not permanent – they plant again right away. We need to make the fields useless for a long time. Are chemicals cheaper than bombs? I’m sure someone’s thought of it before, but even spraying fields with crude oil should make a difference.
They bombed the producing facilities, like the factories, not the poppy fields. I hope the dust the poppy fields. Than would make sense.
That would make sense.
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There is some plant in Australia that if you touch it, stings so bad you’ll want to cut your own arm off just to make it go away.
Cover the plants in powder of that.