The military tactic of defeating indigenous peoples with disease.

[thunder rising]

There are many ways to inflict biological warfare on isolated indigenous peoples. The most obvious way is to directly spread a biological agent with a bomb or spray. Problem is that method is outlawed. However, there is another delivery system that is overlooked: human to human.

You don't have to shoot them. Let "nature" take its course.

I'd be willing to bet that, to their peril, the Pashtun tribes are not up to date with their shots and vaccinations. Are they on the list to be get the flu vaccination for H1N1?

I wondered if there any sign of polio or smallpox in those mountains. The answer is yes, at least for polio as described here: Polio in Afghanistan. Smallpox, no.

We like the think that we can build a nation in our image (God Complex), but without all the modern sciences and processes, we are simply sentencing young, old, fighter and farmer to death.

Another delivery system is addiction. The US military loves an addicted indigenous population. Addicts are manageable in a military sense. Hence, our good general has that aspect of the offensive well covered. They installed a dope dealer as President and opened the routes. Now they are looking the other way as the Afghan "mafia" transitions from supplier of raw material to suppler of refined heroin.

The US military attacks farmers to give lip service to poppy control, but does nothing to stop the collection and manufacture chain to produce heroin. And, as far as we can tell over here, they do not even try to stop the export.

[ensho]

1. kick

nt

[MineralMan]

2. And you think this is a good idea?

Perhaps you're being satirical, but I can't tell.

[thunder rising]

5. If I thought it was a good idea I wouldn't be writing about it. I brought it up, you decide.

[lonestarnot]

3. Addictive personality traits are fully exploited in populations for social control.

Demand and supply controlled by the bourgeois is a dictator class's wet dream and is being done through employment and lack thereof in America. Bushitler made sure that happened before he left with the bank bail-outs. And we're just putting up with it, because there is no organization for a way out of it, second round of foreclosures on its way. :hi:

[Arctic Dave]

4. I find it interesting that we have our military occupying a nation

but we can't seem to stop the farming, processing and export of heroin. Instead it has become easier to do these things. Herion is becoming easier to get then other illicit drugs.

[thunder rising]

6. Cheap heroin: Opium is home grown and now herion is refined locally.

[Arctic Dave]

7. Confused? Are you saying it is grown and refined in the US?

[Echo In Light]

8. A seemingly insurmountable drug 'problem' (operative word, "seemingly")

[FraDon]

9. Let us never forget Lord Jeffrey Amherst and his contribution:

...yes, smallpox blankets.

[AwakeAtLast]

10. That was my first thought when I read the thread title

[undeterred]

11. At last, a Columbus Day thread.