"War on Terror" is "War on Drugs"

Here’s a choice quote from the video:

GERALDO [@ 0:51]: The Taliban lend the farmers the money; they are indebted to the Taliban; they have to grow the opium.

[@1:06]…and we are tolerating it.  We are tolerating the cultivation of the opium because we know that if we were to destroy it now, the population would turn against the Marines and it would be a real security risk.

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LT. COL. CHRISTMAS [@ 1:43]: Well.  Uh, frankly, this is part of their culture.  So, while it might grind in my gut, it’s what they do.  Um, we provide them security; we are providing them resources; and we are providing them alternatives.  The alternatives are, uh, different crops to grow.   Getting the seed and fertilizer to do it. Uh, they can…, they can rotate any of their crops, uh, that they want.  If they want to get rid of their wheat, and grow cotton for the winter, they can do that, and we’re gonna help them do that, and the same thing goes for the poppies.

Now, recall Geraldo’s characterization of the war in Afganistan from April 4, 2010:

[@ 1:54] You have to know that the main fight right now in an anti-drug fight, a counter-narcotics fight.  It’s to get the poppies that grow in such abundance here, that are fueling the Taliban insurgency.

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[@ 2:48] That opium is what fuels the Taliban insurgency.  They’re a lot like the FARC rebels in Columbia.  Whatever the Taliban started as, right now, they are narco-traffickers, and they are fueling their death and destruction with money from those opium poppies that feed heroin addicts in the four corners of the globe.

So the war on terror is a lot like the war on drugs.  Actually, they are both the same.  Remember:

Now let’s summarize:

1. Opium is what fuels the Taliban insurgency.
2. We tolerate the cultivation of the opium, otherwise the Afghan population would turn against the U.S.
3. In order to fight terrorism, the U.S. must support the economic activity that funds terrorism, otherwise there would be nothing to fight.

Make Sense?