Comments on: US Drug War Policies Spur Sales of Afghan Child Brides

By: katie harppp

katie harppp — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:54:19 +0000

im with "megdizzle", evan you have no idea what is happening in afghanistan. its not infotainment, its the facts and its sad. honestly i wana hit you. think of the children and chizzle some ice off of your heart.

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:06:45 +0000

Evan is in denial. Can't accept the fact that when you die you're dead and gone too, probably believes in any one of hundreds of supernatural deities humans have created over millenia to help themselves cope (read: ignore) with the cold hard truth.

By: What Peanut Butter Cost America : Red, Green, and Blue

What Peanut Butter Cost America : Red, Green, and Blue — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:25:17 +0000

[...] in which to sell, so they are more likely to turn to crops with a guaranteed return … and opium is a crop that always finds a [...]

By: Megdizzle

Megdizzle — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:26:09 +0000

"Evan" can suck it because it all is true.

Grow a pair and accept the facts.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:33:36 +0000

This is infotainment. To suggest the eradication of opium poppy causes child brides is not only incorrect (child brides happens even without opium crops) it is mainstream media infotainment, not news. This is not what I sign up to these news feeds for. Have fun with the other "won't someone think of the children" crowd on Jerry Springer.

By: Kamuela

Kamuela — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:20:59 +0000

What culture allows for the bartering of children for debt! For any father to think that this is even an OPTION is just wrong! Now, if they said, that they got their land taken away from them, that would be a more ethical decision, and a decision that i would make before trading debt for my daughter (yes, I DO have a daughter). I feel sympathy for the child (and this is what this article is trying to do), but curse the father and his culture for considering it an option!!!

It is as if a marijuana-growing father is thrown in prison for his dealings, and is separated from his child(ren), albeit on an obviously greater scale.

By: No More Foppies

No More Foppies — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:19:03 +0000

Sorry Fopps,

You can't just wave a magic wand and change a system that has been in place for centuries. Poppy farmers grow poppies because there is a demand for opiates. These people don't traffic drugs, they are simply farmers! If putting a seed in the ground is illegal, lock me up! You think they lost their children because of their own selfish greed? I think you need to go to Afghanistan and see why these folks will do anything they can to provide for their families…

You go ahead watch the news, read your newspaper, and support the western hemisphere's brutalization of the middle east, but what it really comes down to is $$$.

Let's look at another situation brewing in the mid-east: engines that burn fossil fuels. Here is an issue that affects the whole planet. So in your own verbage "time to move forward if they grow opium (fuel) now it get further embedded into there culture and it may never leave stop it now force them to find another way it is the only way they will ever progress"

P.S. There is a place, while their is a possessive modification of they.

By: Foppy

Foppy — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:58:37 +0000

I say good they shouldn't be trading there children away from opium even if theres a slim chance they have to give there child away… farmers own fault… time to change… time to move forward if they grow opium now it get further embedded into there culture and it may never leave stop it now force them to find another way it is the only way they will ever progress pass drug trafficking. they lost there children cause of there own selfish greed… not US or British forces fault for stopping something that will end up in there country not the country its been growing in…

By: notasmoker

notasmoker — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:39:49 +0000

of course the US and British governments support eradication spraying, the basic economic characteristic behind value is "scarcity". by mass eradication of plants, the smaller growers that can not afford bribes to government officials will be taken out, leaving less, richer growers in the market. these people are the types that funnel money, launder, bribe etc. this is good for US and British interests because then there is a better chance that different levels of government get their beaks wet during these various transactions. a necessary (yes drugs are necessary) resource being manipulated by creating conflict… sound familiar?? this should not shock anyone.