The Taliban Is Turning Into A Drug Cartel

If you study the rise of most of our street and motorcycle gangs that engage in criminal

enterprises you will notice that in almost every case they started with good motives. Eventually over time their activities changed into violent criminal behavior which served to perpetuate the existence of the gang.

All entities will become self serving over a period of time. Their focus tends to become more oriented on their own survival rather than some loyal higher cause.

It seems that if they advocated the use of violence for good causes that violence becomes the means to an end during criminal actions. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are prime examples of this and evidence seems to be pointing to both of these organizations becoming drug cartels. We know that they will not hesitate to use drugs to finance their cause. Opium id plentiful in the area along with other drugs so it just stands to reason that they would use profits from the drug trade to finance their war effort. The problem is that drug money is too good for them to pass up no matter what it is used for.

After a decade of fighting, the Taliban is transforming from a religion-focused revolutionary group into something that resembles a drug cartel. The Talibans increased reliance on the drug trade to stay alive is just the beginning of what will likely be a growing trend among embattled terrorist groups around the world, said California Sen. Dianne Feinstein at a hearing of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control.

The Taliban has done almost exactly what Colombias revolutionary Marxist insurgent group did when it became desperate for cash after decades of war with the Colombian government. Now they have enough drug money that they can just buy out the government. The Taliban like the FARC started out by simply providing security and transportation to drug runners in Afghanistan and taxing the farmers who supplied the drug makers.

Eventually the FARC came to the realization that they could make a lot more money if they were involved in the drug trade, as it seems that the Taliban has done.

Personally I believe that the promise of a lucrative income from the proceeds of drug deals is too great for us or anybody else to be able to reverse. I predict that in the future we will see more of the type of drug activities that the drug cartels based in Mexico and Columbia are perpetuating to begin in the Middle East.

The amount of money to be made from the drug trade is too significant for any potential trafficker to ignore.

When we look at the growing problem caused by the drug cartels that exist today it leads us to make some very sobering predictions about what we can expect in the future.

Al-Qaeda and the Taliban already posses the ability to reach out and touch people and organizations worldwide due to the underground terror network that they have established. This in itself would enable them to easily be able to organize and strengthen a worldwide drug network.

I predict that these terror organizations will take the path of least resistance and stretch out their tentacles more into the drug trade. The cost of combating the spread of drug trafficking may be more costly that combating terror around the world. Military Ring Express

by: tishbite

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