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Ligyron

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25. Even that is preferable to letting pain patients suffer.

Reply to milestogo (Reply #12)

Sun Aug 15, 2021, 08:46 AM

Aug 2021

The DEA etc have gone way overboard in their zeal to eliminate opioids.

There are people who can’t figure out away around that nonsense who are killing themselves daily.

Besides, this is supposed to be the land of the free where our citizens should be allowed their pursuit of happiness. Provided they’re adults.

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So Kabul has fallen...And so has Afghanistan. [View all] Rustyeye77 Aug 2021 OP

You've really said it all in your post. Excellent summary. So very sad. MLAA Aug 2021 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #3

Drugs should be LEGALIZED all around the world secondwind Aug 2021 #2

C'mon...give me a break Rustyeye77 Aug 2021 #5

Yeah, lets start handing out drugs worse than oxycodone. milestogo Aug 2021 #12

Even that is preferable to letting pain patients suffer. Ligyron Aug 2021 #25

Aren't the Taliban opposed to bacha bazi? mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #4

Yes, they are -- they consider it homosexuality obamanut2012 Aug 2021 #7

It does not matter who is in charge the culturally accepted sexual perversion will continue. The Jungle 1 Aug 2021 #27

👏👏👏👏 Traildogbob Aug 2021 #31

My rant has been building for twenty years. The Jungle 1 Aug 2021 #37

IIRC back before we invaded, the Taliban rigorously suppressed growing poppies for opium... Hekate Aug 2021 #39

Correct The Jungle 1 Aug 2021 #42

Yes, it's pretty horrible. And sad. Goodheart Aug 2021 #6

Rusty, I'm pretty sure that a great many Afghans feel that the nation has been liberated. panader0 Aug 2021 #8

I dont even have a comment. Rustyeye77 Aug 2021 #13

Google 'Afghan civilians killed by US forces'--it's horrendous. panader0 Aug 2021 #17

Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld vanity war agingdem Aug 2021 #15

Add Wolfowitz and Doug Feith. 3Hotdogs Aug 2021 #18

I think the poster is lamenting the taste of freedom... joshcryer Aug 2021 #24

War cannot defeat religion Tiger8 Aug 2021 #28

Now it's China and Iran's turn. roamer65 Aug 2021 #9

Russia couldn't do it. The US couldn't do it. China/Iran want to be hegemonies, time to pony up. TheBlackAdder Aug 2021 #33

Britain failed there too. Captain Zero Aug 2021 #41

We cannot hope to bring democracy to anyone else until we secure it here at home. Irish_Dem Aug 2021 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author JoanofArgh Aug 2021 #11

that is just baldly false dsc Aug 2021 #16

You know, you're right. 20% of Afghanistan was controlled JoanofArgh Aug 2021 #22

I suggest you study some of the facts surrounding what that filthy culture also does to boys. The Jungle 1 Aug 2021 #38

I blame Bush all the way Blues Heron Aug 2021 #14

And we must remember praxEs Aug 2021 #19

+1000 NJCher Aug 2021 #34

The RW is having a collective orgasm Mosby Aug 2021 #20

The men of Afghanistan are not going to save Afghan women. MrModerate Aug 2021 #21

Very sad Joinfortmill Aug 2021 #23

If only we learn the lessons that Afghan is teaching us. nt joetheman Aug 2021 #26

My brother spent a year there on an FOB near the Pakistan border. He worked yaesu Aug 2021 #29

illuminating post NJCher Aug 2021 #35

TY, this was around 2007 & hearing his experiences was really an eyeopener. yaesu Aug 2021 #40

It was never really a viable country. elevator Aug 2021 #30

when you have passed sad, where are you? Piasladic Aug 2021 #32

The maudlin. marble falls Aug 2021 #36