Taliban's Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along - eviltoast
  • Smoogy@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Both can be wrong, Sounds like you’re just here to derail into having a different conversation you want to have entirely separate to the topic rather than addressing the actual topic.

    • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I’m staying on topic.

      I am demonstrating how the American occupational forces handed out harsher punishments and consequences than the Taliban did, yet couldn’t curb opium production. Ergo, the Americans were never interested in curbing opium production.

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        1 year ago

        The Americans didn’t intend to kill all those people. They intended to kill soldiers, and lots of other people who they deemed evil, but growing drugs was never deemed evil enough to be worth killing someone over. The Taliban intended to kill those growing drugs, along with a lot of other people doing things they deem to be evil I’ll leave moral judgements to you.

      • Julian@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I mean my takeaway would be that the us shouldn’t slaughter and torture people, not that they should have slaughtered and tortored more people to curb opium production.