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Nov. 5, 2009 The British Government is in the midst of an attempt to make the sale and possession of cannabis a more serious offence. What you may ask has this to do with terrorism? A good question. In answer I would reply:warfare since 1945 has drastically changed. No more does battalion fight battalion, division, division or army, army. Modern warfare is more one of organization versus organization. Take the war in Afghanistan for example. Primitive tribesmen hold at bay some of the most modern and sophisticated armies in the world. They fight when it is an opportune; suicide attack and plant improvised explosive devices when it is not. The Taliban is now a loose knit organization protecting al Quida. Groups are patronized by foreign organizations and come under a management coordinating committee responsible for coordinating attacks within Afghanistan. All of this has to be paid for, the sole source of income for the Taliban being the taxes levied on those in areas not under NATO/US Army control and the sale of narcotics. Afghanistan is now estimated to account for 90% of the world’s supply of heroin. Well you may ask what does this have to do with the poor peaceful innocent pot smoker? Well for starters it must be pointed out that pot is the driving force of the international narcotics trafficking industry. It is sent south from Canada into the US where it is converted into guns and crystal meth amphetamine to be sold the world over. The oil that lubricates this industry is pot as most who engage in the habit are unlikely to ever have an encounter with the law, and, even if they do, the whole thing will more or less be brushed off with references to this being the 21st century and what’s the big deal etc, etc.
The big deal is that pot is for the illicit drugs industry a steady source of income with which to use in order to facilitate the other more volatile parts of the industry. The British attack on pot if successful can lead to a corresponding hampering of the heroin trade in Afghanistan as of course one branch of the industry is dependent upon the other. What we in fact have is a war financed by one part of society against itself. We only have to watch where the various allowance monies go at the beginning of the first week of every month in order to prove this. In conventional warfare this is referred to as cutting the enemy supply line. There is no walking out of Afghanistan as in the case of Vietnam. Either the west prevails or accepts the fact that a safe haven is now available to those who will launch attacks against the west. When the chips are down history is replete with instance where the finer points of a democratic society fall by the wayside. The British are responding with the best weapon they have: an enemy supply line running through their territory.
Read Mike Haran's essays on history at
http://www.geocities.com/manzikertca/
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