A Fateful Harvest - part 3 - U.S eradication programs

Getting Afghanistan to rid itself of poppy is a pillar of U.S. policy. What is controversial about it? Have alternative livelihood programs been successful? VOA cameras visit a Taliban stronghold in Tarin Kowt.

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[core1976scotland]

This is exagerations & half truths @ best.

[dancidelics]

damn straight..... just farmers who have nothing els to lose because they already lost their families to famine!

[ripcurl29098]

WTF the PLOT FOR 911??? HOW THEY FUCK DO YOU PROVE THAT??? this "documentary" is horse shit...

[silver760]

I'd love to know who's going to eat all those pomegranates? They taste like shit no matter what you do with them,all the seeds also make them a pain in the ass to eat.The only thing they are any use for is target practice.Pomegranates are neither nutritious or sustaining.It's only idiots like us in europe that even want to attempt eating them,so they end up shipping them thousands of miles,like they do with hundreds of other crops eaten in europe.

[popper504]

Sorry but i gotta side with the farmers on this one. These people are coming in here and violently taking away their lively hood, ways to feed their kids and famlies. This is all they have and know. They cant go down the street and appply for a job like in America. World is a horrific place.

[prourke513]

@dancidelics Not only famine but to bombs and land mines and countless other unfortunate circumstances. These people live worse than Americans did in the 1800's..They have NOTHING, and now they want to take away the one thing they can call their own..I try and understand both sides..Its just hard to take my country serious ( the United States) when countles upon countless times its shown that their actually involved in the trade themselves!!

[OliveraBalt]

Amerinazi drug dealing hypocrites go home! 911=Reichstag fire

[CombatDaggers]

in helmand the allies dont do shit about poppy cause the random niggaz alrdy got the candygrams !!!!

[Straylight100]

General Mohhammed Doud is one of Afghanistan's biggest heroin dealers - and he's in charge of the drug police?

Hamid Karzai, Afgahnistan's President is the country's biggest smack dealer - guess who put him in power - coke-dealing draft-dodging GWBush

[Straylight100]

Fuck the DEA -lying dirty low-down scumbags subverting the Constitution for the likes of Ollie North & GWBush.

DEA = Dirty Evil Assholes

Abolish the DEA!!

[k99evin]

American need to get their heads out of other countries asses

[bmays002]

They made is law in Iraq farmers must plant Mosanto GMO crops, just google it. Cancer is already skyrocketing, children with cancer, everything.