Re: [Pen-l] My Letter to President Obama

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Julio Huato wrote:

President Barack Obama
...I am so disappointed by your decision to escalate the war
in Afghanistan by sending 17,000 more troops to that country in the
next few days...

I note that this eloquent plea to Obama for humanitarianism and international goodwill has not a single word about the most important issue in the Afghan conflict: the Heroin trade and the absolute necessity to eliminate it by the legalization of opium-poppy cultivation and the formation of an Afghan-controlled  manufacturing and exporting authority for the purchase (at above-market prices) of opium, its processing into morphine, and its distribution as medicine throughout the world.

After all, if one is into making futile appeals one should at least include something realistic in them.

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it

always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,

kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos

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