Comments on: Don’t Mention The War: Afghan Follies http://isgreaterthan.net/2008/03/dont-mention-the-war-afghan-follies/ Literary-minded culture blog Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:38:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Fhar http://isgreaterthan.net/2008/03/dont-mention-the-war-afghan-follies/comment-page-1/#comment-1310 Fhar Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:11:18 +0000 http://isgreaterthan.net/2008/03/19/dont-mention-the-war-afghan-follies/#comment-1310 Without having a lot of the specifics in hand at the moment, I would suggest that support for the Northern Alliance with its habit of boosting Afghanistan's drug production was not simply a "lesser-of-two-evils" gamble. This may sound overly conspiratorial, but I think the US is quite happy to see the heroin trade back on track in Central Asia. The drug trade is a great way to inject money into "the economy" without having to be accountable for it. We should remember that it was two years ago today that the Federal Reserve stopped reporting M3 money supply, allowing it to basically "print" as much money as it likes without anyone knowing the particulars. In some ways, the drug trade serves the same function, as drug revenues must necessarily be laundered through global financial markets. The current crisis of credit would certainly be much worse were it not for the liquidity provided by drug laundering. Again, without having any documentation at hand, I have a hunch that the current "Kosovo Independence" situation is being motivated by similar dynamics, as, at least during the time of the Kosovo war, the Kosovo rebels were big players in the drug trade between Turkey and Europe. Without having a lot of the specifics in hand at the moment, I would suggest that support for the Northern Alliance with its habit of boosting Afghanistan’s drug production was not simply a “lesser-of-two-evils” gamble. This may sound overly conspiratorial, but I think the US is quite happy to see the heroin trade back on track in Central Asia. The drug trade is a great way to inject money into “the economy” without having to be accountable for it. We should remember that it was two years ago today that the Federal Reserve stopped reporting M3 money supply, allowing it to basically “print” as much money as it likes without anyone knowing the particulars. In some ways, the drug trade serves the same function, as drug revenues must necessarily be laundered through global financial markets. The current crisis of credit would certainly be much worse were it not for the liquidity provided by drug laundering.

Again, without having any documentation at hand, I have a hunch that the current “Kosovo Independence” situation is being motivated by similar dynamics, as, at least during the time of the Kosovo war, the Kosovo rebels were big players in the drug trade between Turkey and Europe.

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