Paphitis wrote:yialousa1971 wrote:Paphitis wrote:Get Real! wrote:That’s the stupid thing about imperialists… they think they’re very smart going around uprooting people from 3rd world countries, and then when these refugees relocate to THEIR country they then wonder why they’ve got so many foreigners and where they went wrong!
It was the Taliban that unsurped them. All you have to do is ask the Afghanis and thy will tell you that the Taliban is the worst thing that has happenned to their country, and so, they seek freedom in the West.
They are also very supportive of the coalition, so I don't know what you're on about.
When they come, we gain some very vibrant and intelligent individuals who become Australian. They are our friends, and we are very happy to have them.
Our Immigration policies ensure we pick the right ones.
All you have to do is ask the Afghanis and thy will tell you that the Taliban is the worst thing that has happenned to their country
Ofcause they don't like the Taliban, the Taliban cracked down on the cultivating of opium.
The Taliban may have banned others from cultivating Opium, but they were obviously exempt from this Islamic Tenet, since it was OK for them to cultivate Opium in order to fund their terrorist operations around the globe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8319249.stmGo to sleep YiaTosser....
Calling me names won't help hide your ignorance.
For the past three years, growing poppy in Afghanistan, as Mr. Attock and his tenants do, has been a relatively risk-free and open business. The Taliban had imposed a ruthlessly successful ban on poppy cultivation in 2000; more than 90 percent of cultivation stopped. But since the U.S. invasion in 2001, eradication efforts have been minimal and ineffective and production has again soared. Globally, Afghanistan's opium business is estimated to be worth more than $30 billion a year, with the vast majority of that cash being captured by players in other countries. One Western counternarcotics official estimated that poppy production increased by 64 percent in 2004. Afghanistan now produces an estimated 87 percent of the world's opium, most of which becomes heroin and morphine. Income from poppy and its associated processing and trafficking are said to contribute $2.8 billion annually to the Afghan economy, a sum equal to 60 percent of the country's legitimate GDP. About a quarter of this money ends up in the hands of common farmers; the rest goes to traffickers.
Never heard of the Opium wars?
This war with China . . . really seems to me so wicked as to be a national sin of the greatest possible magnitude, and it distresses me very deeply. Cannot any thing be done by petition or otherwise to awaken men's minds to the dreadful guilt we are incurring? I really do not remember, in any history, of a war undertaken with such combined injustice and baseness. Ordinary wars of conquest are to me far less wicked, than to go to war in order to maintain smuggling, and that smuggling consisting in the introduction of a demoralizing drug, which the government of China wishes to keep out, and which we, for the lucre of gain, want to introduce by force; and in this quarrel are going to burn and slay in the pride of our supposed superiority. — Thomas Arnold to W. W. Hull, March 18, 1840.
British merchants were frustrated by Chinese trade laws and refused to cooperate with Chinese legal officials because of their routine use of torture. Upon his arrival in Canton in March, 1839, the Emperor's special emissary, Lin Ze-xu, took swift action against the foreign merchants and their Chinese accomplices, making some 1,600 arrests and confiscating 11,000 pounds of opium. Despite attempts by the British superintendent of trade, Charles Elliot, to negotiate a compromise, in June Lin ordered the seizure another 20,00 crates of opium from foreign-controlled factories, holding all foreign merchants under arrest until they surrendered nine million dollars worth of opium, which he then had burned publicly. Finally, he ordered the port of Canton closed to all foreign merchants. Elliot in turn ordered a blockade of the Pearl River. In an ensuing naval battle, described as a victory by Chinese propagandists, in November 1839 the Royal Navy sank a number of Chinese vessels near Guangzhou. By January 1841, the British had captured the Bogue forts at the Pearl's mouth and controlled the high ground above the port of Canton. Subsequently, British forces scored victories on land at Ningbo and Chinhai, crushing the ill-equipped and poorly trained imperial forces with ease. Viewed as too moderate back at home, in August 1841 Elliot was replaced by Sir Henry Pottinger to launch a major offensive against Ningbo and Tiajin. By the end of June British forces occupied Zhenjiang and controlled the vast rice-growing lands of southern China.
Maybe thats why they invaded Afghanistan, counldn't let their drug business go down the pan! Who runs the show thou?
