The Afghanistan issue is the Afghani monopoly on the world's growth of opium poppy which is distilled into heroin, with portable labs, right on the farm! That is the only issue driving every thing happening today in Afghanistan, beginning with the money that funded 9/11!

Every time you pull up at a Stop and Go in America, to get gas, or a coffee, or cigarettes, outside a few feet away from the door someone is hanging out, leaning against the bricks. That person is either dealing crack from Columbia, or heroin, from opium poppy grown in Afghanistan.

This unremarked criminal harmony is from sea to shining sea. There aren't any criminal drive by shootings, fighting over Stop and Go drug dealer turf. Perhaps we must wait until Barky Obama's oldest daughter comes home from school with an ever so slight droop in her eyes, that from a morning heroin snort with one of her friends, before our president finally gets wise!

When more than one million pre-teen and early teen agers are getting into heroin, telling themselves, I'm in control, I only use twice a week," then America will begin to see the out-of-control crime a youngster bound to the drug will commit, to get their drug, the mayhem we face, brought on by ignoring the underlying issue that drives the Taliban and al Qaeda in this war.

As your president, my strategy is not a state seek writ. We occupy all the poppy fields, and pay the farmers cash in advance (CIA). That must be our policy! I dedicate this essay to all of those decent people who seek a rational sensible approach to defeating the Taliiban and al Qaeda, the reason we went into Afghanistan.

Here is the Afghanistan Solution, the strategy we need, what we must do, how to do it, and why, and what I, an independent candidate for president am going to do upon election to our highest office, a happenstance that cannot be ruled out. Regardless what Barack Obama does, the following is what I am going to do, upon election and the oath of our highest office.

In the event president Obama decides to withdraw from Afghanistan, it will be on behalf of his reelection, not because it was or is the smart move to make. Upon my election we will be immediately going back to Afghanistan, redeploying for reasons you can deduct upon reading what follows.

We adopt this opium poppy strategy, explained below, or we risk another terrorist attack in America, rivaling the 9 / 11 attack.

Were that the only issue on the table it would be good enough reason for your close attention! White House officials involved in the ongoing Afghanistan deliberations should carefully consider what is here revealed!

The key to winning Afghanistan and Pakistan, to dissolving al Qaeda and Taliban, is controlling the opium the Afghani's meticulously grow. On this planet, world wide, opium is the grand poppa of all the opiates. That dirt-cheap heroin readily bought on the streets of Manhattan and Washington DC, on the streets of Kabul, and by the barrack gates where our troops are billited, began it's opiate life a sleepy Pashtun poppy, milked in Afghanistan, oceans away.

That 17% pure heroin bag; available on select street corners in every major city in the western world, started out an opium poppy grown in Afghanistan. You first saw the rich Afghanistan poppy fields by the Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard of Oz.

93% of the world's opium is grown and refined into heroin right on the Afghani farms with state of the art portable equipment! They are not such a backward unsophisticated country as rigid status quo bureaucrats are apt to paint them. The farmers grow the highest quality most potent opium that yields the most heroin, world wide! Similar to our Iowa farmer's ability to grow bountiful crops of corn.

Bill Gates must marvel at their opium / heroin market share. Monopoly! Irreplaceable, worldwide; a blessing for all sides, especially us, because controlling the opium poppy fields means we will have taken control of the main source of income for all the barbarian Taliban, the terrorist al Qaeda operations in all the neighboring countries, and all of the Western Hemisphere cartels and subtle European drug dealerships.

The heroin, lifeblood for terrorists and drug cartels, is smuggled throughout Europe, with tons, tons going by plane and ship to South America where, repackaged, its origin is disguised so no one gets wise; and from Columbia, routed to Mexican cartels, and from Mexico, into our country, to be retailed in our ghettos, suburban neighborhoods and school yards. 

For the cartels this wholesale heroin represents billions of dollars in retail business. Billions of underground criminal, and terrorist dollars, our grade school and high school yards one of the cartel's retail outlets!

The key to stuffing Taliban and al Qaeda, eradicating all of their corruption of Afghanistan, is to choke the opium supply the Afghan farmers are world wide famous for; choke the supply which would wipe out the opium / heroin smuggling trade; and choke their criminal customers on our side of the sea.

We don't have 68,000 troops in uniform, stationed in South America, chopping down the Columbian jungle to get at the cocaine plantations. That is not happening. But we do have 68,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan, more on the way and the opium poppy stratgegy carefully explained here will save most of their lives.

The Taliban's and al Qaeda's end in the opium/heroin trade nets millions of dollars, peanuts in the big picture, falafel on the table for Taliban's "freedom fighters" over the border, in Pakistan; and money for the families of al Qaeda's suicide bombers who live throughout the region.

For the international criminal drug cartels the opium/heroin wholesale/retail is between 500 and 600 billion illigitimate unwashed tax free dollars per annum!

Without the opium/heroin smuggle, al Qaeda and Taliban would be decimated. The Western Hemisphere drug cartels would lose their hundreds of billions of dollars and would be facing their own recession. Street corner drug dealers would be signing up for unemployment checks. All of the illegal heroin in the United States would dry up as the pipeline for the heroin they deal would be destroyed! 

That is exactly what we want.

In Iraq, whoever is running the roads, wins. In Afghanistan, the Taliban own the roads, while the opium dollar fuels both the war and the Taliban structure, enabling them to strike! Afghanistan is a poor country with a rich culture. Whoever controls the opium harvest in every locality battled in advance for that right. The hardy Afghani farmers get only enough to live decently and plant their fresh poppy.

The Taliban "freedom fighters" would leave for home in a heartbeat, were they not getting fed and allowed to while away the days smoking the black Afghani hashish. No food no money no fight. The newly chosen Taliban "leader" has a payroll he must meet. The opium proceeds cover the Taliban payroll!

Mr President Obama is our Commander-in-Chief, the civilian boss in charge of our ribbon shirts, but General Stanley McChrystal and his military bureaucrats, and all the retired cable news talking heads grousing every day are all misreading and misleading the Afghanistan war.

A recent, The Wall Street Journal article: Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000, by Peter Spiegal and Yochi Dreazen stated, 

"White House officials familiar with deliberations said that while some elements of the Taliban were inclined to harbor al Qaeda, which operated freely in Afghanistan through 2001, other members were focused on Afghanistan's internal politics and much less likely to support the international terror group."

Oh! The Taliban is more interested in securing seats on the local neighbor hooded school boards? Hardly! The Taliban's Afghanistan infrastructure has one purpose: controlling the opium poppy during and after the harvest!

The Taliban differs from al Qaeda in one respect. Taliban are criminal drug dealers hiding behind fundamentalist religion, oppressing the local people, which they believe is key to their continuing success in owning the opium/heroin, whereas Al Qaeda smuggles heroin to fund senseless political attacks throughout the region, and to plan another 9/11 death and destruction which cannot get done without many millions of dollars. 

A few years ago Taliban leader Mullah Omar came to Texas. Whatever the official reason for his "trip," talks about a potential oil pipe line, the real reason was to have some lengthy conversations on a throw away cell phone with Mexican and Columbian Cartel officials, ironing out the details for shipping refined heroin instead of tell tale smelly opium. The Columbians were let into the act because Mullah Omar thought no one would suspect heroin originating in far a way place, Afghanistan would be round-about smuggled into South America, and from there, north.

The oil pipe line talks were a hoax. The Taliban were in America, in Texas to solidify the opium/heroin moolah pipeline for the mullah. We don't need to build an Afghanistan army.The unaligned unofficial Afghani militias know how to fight.

With a little strucure and dollar support at the bottom, at the farm level, the Afghani people will protect themselves. Abraham Lincoln established a sea embargo to win the Civil War. Without supplies by ship from Europe, the Confederate Army was doomed.

Our troops get killed on border patrols between Pakistan and Afghanistan to protect our way of life across the ocean. Yet a stone's throw away, Mother Nature's opium is grown for the criminal and international terrorist's gain? How can our military be so dumb as to allow this to go on, creating millions of terrorist jihad dollars?

The only thing going across that Pakistan / Afghanistan border are paid fighters and convoys of drug smugglers hauling their cargo. The Afghan opium is key to everything happening there!

We own the opium and the country is ours. Opium control means renegade Taliban, al Qaeda terrorists, and warlords are on the road again. Skedaddled or killed.

(I like the idea of not killing anybody.)

The White House failure to respond to this issue in my campaign will lead to loss of American lives, and seal the possibility of Barack Obama being reelected to a 2nd term in our Highest office. As the person who created the Vehicle for World Peace, I can promise that much for sure. But I am not the issue, only what "eye" say is the issue. 

The opium production and our clear ability to control that opium, is the main and only topic.

Our troops must begin digging foxholes in every opium field, making CIA Cash In Advance deals with the Afghanis that we are purchasing their opium crop for top dollar, in raw opium form. The farmers don't have to brew the opium sap into that dangerous snowy heroin powder, so they are poppy plentiful, an ounce or two included for the house, compliments of us.

Raw opium isn't dangerous. You won't kill yourself smoking opium the way you can so easily overdose from a heroin syringe, so we want the whole Afghani crop raw, just like unefined brown sugar, and we will pay the refined opium heroin price which is similar to tacking on an additional 65 cents to a bushel of Iowa corn.

The war momentum will immediately shift! 

Instead of Taliban's "freedom fighters" picking us off every other day as we patrol the dangerous Afghanistan border, we will occupy the opium poppy fields and wait for Taliban to show up, our invited guests for a guaranteed steel jacket lunch.

The key to Afghan quality of life for Taliban, thugs without a country when we defeat them, to shipping their kids off to the Ivy League is based on who gets to stash the cash from Afghanistan's opium crop.

Would that be Karzai and his drug dealing family in Kabul, getting their slice? At the same time, on the diplomatic front we ought to push to reunite Pakistan with India. This will initiate the eviction of Taliban by the Pakistani people. For Pakistan, rejoining India means freedom, food, jobs, education, and a better life. Only their military bureaucrats are against this idea, and their minds could be changed with a passport, an SUV, and a forty acre guarantee in Montana.

Instead of knee jerk reactions to my The Hunt For The Red October reference to 'Montana," our government should just get creative and plant that idea in Pakistan newspapers above the fold! Now is the time to wag the Pakistan India dog!

Sad, these policies, purchasing Afghanistan's opium, piecing off the Pak military, and reuniting Pakistan with India may be too progressive for president Obama, and for his Secretary of State Hillary Clintstone, too, but maybe not.

Certainly wagging this Pakistan-India dog will be incentive for the Paks to evict the Taliban and that is what we want! The Paks have nothing going for them under the Taliban gun.

Don't you know the Taliban bribed the Pak military for long-term safe journey with the opium money. That is how they established their foothold in Pakistan! Opium money! Too bad our President is surrounded by bureaucrats who wouldn't know the scent of an opium house were they standing at the door.

Many Taliban soldiers will change colors of their turbans and meld into the crowd as soon as they realize the opium harvest has been taken away from them. It isn't about religion, or the neighbor hooded school board, or how many times a day you pray to Big Al (Allah to you), it is about the opium / heroin and millions of dollars in cash! Seeing as you can eat three hot meals a day in the streets of Mumbai for less than a dollar, one million dollars = one million days divided by x number of Taliban grunts.

In Afghanistan, we need to get busy, prepare the fields, create comfortable foxholes on every poppy acre, booby trap the brush surrounding with a wide safe swath to the farmhouse, and make it clear to the farmers, by CIA shelling out Cash In Advance, we are purchasing their whole raw opium crop but paying top refined heroin price, so the farmers are with us! Super incentive for the farmers. Less work more money.

Taliban, Al Qaeda and warlords will have to exit their caves and cross the poppy fields instead of picking us off with their remotely detonated roadside attacks. Retired military will be opposed to this poppy war, but hard pressed to tell you why because they support that opium trade just the way it is.

We are purchasing the Afghani's poppy crop, and negotiating fair and square and in advance how much sticky black sap can be extrapolated from each plant. This is a job for our enlisted soldiers in the field to negotiate with the farms where they are dug in, not for CIA officers from Kabul, not living on the farms in foxholes!

The plants, ripening by day, are the draw for Taliban, al Qaeda and warlords to show, the only way for them to go, taking on our troops in the poppy fields where we will defeat them!

When they come down the yellow brick Afghanistan road we can sting them from above. A couple drone attacks will turn them all around in their tracks. No opium no paychecks.

The extra virgin first milk is scheduled to start tomorrow. Our enemies know that. The farmers are out of the picture as they are already paid in advance. At 4:00 a.m. we begin snipping every plant two inches above ground with two handle bush trimmers, chop chop, just like that. At dawn, we start stuffing wood chippers and spread the soil with the chopped up results to fertilize next year's crop.

So good-bye Taliban grunt, and don't step on any land mines going home.

A couple million heroin addicts in Europe will be going cold turkey! The Mexican and Columbian drug cartels will be out of heroin, and lose hundreds of millions of criminal dollars in projected sales.

Regardless bureaucrats will be viciously against this operation. The status quo is how the rigid government's bureaucrats want to go.

But with a cash infusion at the farm level, Afghanistan will begin to flourish. The Afghani people will start rebuilding their own country, without corruption from above, roads and schools decided by tribal leaders in the farm districts, with a helping hand from us.

We must also purchase their whole marijuana and hasish crop, and either sell that to the shops in Amsterdam or bring each of the harvests to USA for medicinal purposes, or run the risk that that crop, too becomes an income for the terrorists. Afghani marijuana is the most potent in the world, best for relief of chemotherapy's side effects.

Regardless what Obama's surrounding bureaucrats say, we occupy the opium fields, purchase the whole crop, and all the heroin sold every day in our country will dry up! Young kids in poor neighborhoods will not become addicted to heroin. Don't we want that? Don't you? The opium / heroin dry up is guaranteed because all of the other countries where opium grows, they only have planted enough for their own home land and neighboring clientele. 

The opium pays al Qaeda's world salary. But who controls the opium wins the terrorist war, world wide! The above poppy strategy will accomplish our mission! Those opposed want things the way they are. Follow the money. In the event we ignore the terrorist's cash cow, and leave, al Qaeda, opium rich, will have the funds to execute all of their murderous plans. Weren't the twin towers brought down and al Qaeda's Pentagon attack enough for you! The opium trade paid for the 9/11 tragedy! We cannot risk allowing that to repeat. We cannot! 

Unless Obama wants it for sure before the end of his first year, he is a lame duck one term president, then he should ignore what eye say.

Michael Stephen Levinson
candidate for president

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