{"id":59,"date":"2003-07-25T00:13:37","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T07:13:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-07-25T00:13:37","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T07:13:37","slug":"maybe-the-liberventionists-were-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/25\/maybe-the-liberventionists-were-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the Liberventionists Were Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About spreading freedom at gunpoint. Drug prohibition seems to be out the window in liberated Afghanistan&#8211; which is why we&#8217;ll soon be invading them again.<br \/>\nFrom the Christian Science Monitor:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2003\/0724\/p06s01-wosc.html\" title=\"Bumper year for Afghan poppies\">Bumper year for Afghan poppies<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><i>BATIKOT, AFGHANISTAN &#8211; Gul Hazrat Bacha has turned his attention from his fields to building a new house for his family &#8211; a dream fulfilled by his recent opium poppy crop.<\/p>\n<p>Only two years ago, Mr. Bacha and his four brothers grew wheat &#8211; and fell deeper into debt each year. Now, they make 12 times their former income, have paid back lenders, and see a future for the family. &#8220;Honestly speaking, whatever I have is because of poppy,&#8221; says Bacha with a smile. &#8220;Money, happiness, and the house &#8230; everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afghan farmers are producing a bumper crop of poppies this year, despite a ban imposed by President Hamid Karzai&#8217;s government, and just three years after the Taliban clamped down on cultivation.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About spreading freedom at gunpoint. Drug prohibition seems to be out the window in liberated Afghanistan&#8211; which is why we&#8217;ll soon be invading them again. From the Christian Science Monitor: Bumper year for Afghan poppies BATIKOT, AFGHANISTAN &#8211; Gul Hazrat Bacha has turned his attention from his fields to building a new house for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}