http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/06/a-path-we-need-to-take-to-win-in-afghanistan/ A blog about Military Issues, Afghanistan, and everything in between Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:45:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/06/a-path-we-need-to-take-to-win-in-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4120 Kitchen Dispatch (Kanani) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:34:17 +0000 http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/06/a-path-we-need-to-take-to-win-in-afghanistan/#comment-4120 Good points. I was reading Sarah Chayes's book, "The Punishment of Virtue," and she echoes some of the same. I'll be doing a piece on her alternative Opium growing efforts and her small Afghan company called Arghan, which sells hand crafted products from the region. Body oils, silks, etc. Good points. I was reading Sarah Chayes’s book, “The Punishment of Virtue,” and she echoes some of the same. I’ll be doing a piece on her alternative Opium growing efforts and her small Afghan company called Arghan, which sells hand crafted products from the region. Body oils, silks, etc.

]]> http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/06/a-path-we-need-to-take-to-win-in-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4025 AirmanMom Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:41:31 +0000 http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/06/a-path-we-need-to-take-to-win-in-afghanistan/#comment-4025 This is my first visit to your blog and I look forward to reading your words again soon! ~AM .-= AirmanMom´s last blog ..<a href="http://airmanmom.blogspot.com/2009/06/happy-birthday-my-baby-girl.html" rel="nofollow">Happy Birthday, My Baby Girl!!!</a> =-. This is my first visit to your blog and I look forward to reading your words again soon!
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]]> http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/06/a-path-we-need-to-take-to-win-in-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4020 The Captain’s Journal » Agricultural Development Teams and Poppy in Afghanistan Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:26:13 +0000 http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/06/a-path-we-need-to-take-to-win-in-afghanistan/#comment-4020 [...] Bouhammer gives serious thought to the issue of poppy cultivation, funding of the Taliban, and alternatives for the Afghan farmers. The main points of my argument in dealing with the drugs is not to go after the farmers, who are just trying to make a living and provide for their family. They will grow whatever they can that brings in the most money, and unfortunately that is poppy and always has been. If Coalition forces go into a farmer’s property and wipe out his crops, then it will just piss off the farmer and turn him to the enemy. There are also other farmers waiting for the chance to replace the farmer who was just taken out by the poppy eradication. So going after the farmer is not the silver bullet answer. However deploying ADT teams and using them to empower the farmer and show him alternative crops is part of the answer. [...] [...] Bouhammer gives serious thought to the issue of poppy cultivation, funding of the Taliban, and alternatives for the Afghan farmers. The main points of my argument in dealing with the drugs is not to go after the farmers, who are just trying to make a living and provide for their family. They will grow whatever they can that brings in the most money, and unfortunately that is poppy and always has been. If Coalition forces go into a farmer’s property and wipe out his crops, then it will just piss off the farmer and turn him to the enemy. There are also other farmers waiting for the chance to replace the farmer who was just taken out by the poppy eradication. So going after the farmer is not the silver bullet answer. However deploying ADT teams and using them to empower the farmer and show him alternative crops is part of the answer. [...]

]]> http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/06/a-path-we-need-to-take-to-win-in-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4015 Jane Rodmyre Payfer Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:33:34 +0000 http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/06/a-path-we-need-to-take-to-win-in-afghanistan/#comment-4015 Good to hear that the "official" plan also garners your endorsement as both logical and "workable" - not some "pie in the sky" ineffective approach. Thanks for sharing. Keep us updated on your ongoing discussions with the high muckety-types :) jrp .-= Jane Rodmyre Payfer´s last blog ..<a href="http://applepiemom.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/halfway-home/" rel="nofollow">Halfway Home</a> =-. Good to hear that the “official” plan also garners your endorsement as both logical and “workable” – not some “pie in the sky” ineffective approach.
Thanks for sharing.
Keep us updated on your ongoing discussions with the high muckety-types
jrp
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