War on Narcotics Will Rule Out The War on Terror

The recent news which stated Russia’s emphasis on ratcheting up narco-threat will rule out the terrorism threat and will disappoint many of us in terms of the terrorist activities that are a day to day risk to our lives. In a response to such decision of Russia, when I began to analyze its significance, I discovered some shocking rationales that follow the same pattern of intimidation as what we may expect and what we are witnessing today, suicide bombings, growing ammunition usage, risk and fear of going out in the public places. Is it not worth contemplating that every year millions of people throughout the world are the victims of narcotics? Is it not shocking that when a person goes out in public, he remains uncertain of putting his trust on the right person that he won’t get him heroin addict, and whenever he visits hospital even for a blood test, he has to be wary of the needles he will be treated with (especially in under developed countries).  

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With a single narco user who gets addicted accidentally to when it comes to a group of narco users, what is the difference to those suicide bombers who are waiting to be turned into torsos, those who are emotionally and psychologically addicted to trust their superiors for further instructions to embrace a painful death wrapped up in a commitment, a commitment to provide with their families some cash in lieu of their butchered bodies. What difference does it really make when compared to those narco lovers who are physically and emotionally dependant on their doses, which if they don’t get on time, runs out of patience, and despite knowing they will be gone forever for good, they are forced to rely on their narco groups so as to get their next promised dosage.

Viktor Ivanov’s, who runs anti-narcotics agency FSKN claims to place the issue on top of everything else and declares how deep it has penetrated its roots not alone in the civilian circle of Russian youth, but its widespread prevails in the military too. Every year in Russia alone, 3000 young men are declared unfit for the army (1) that is a just indication they remain unfit as well to combat weapons and equipment. Even in training centers and educational institutes, drug users sustain the tough policies and while trying to appear themselves fit for the responsibility, show up as if they are capable of the growing responsibilities, which is certainly not true.

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On the other hand, if narco-threat has been really put above the war on terror, what and where will the Afghans heed in order to earn their livelihood? Their opium crops harvesting, to which most of the Afghans believe is legitimate, at least this is what the warlords have made them believe and is the main source of income for their families and cartels. Turning this cultivation down will ruin their household income and economic conditions which are already upended for many economic and social conditions, let alone the Afghan war.

With a hope that world will outmaneuver the war on terror with the war on narcotics, there is a possibility that some political embezzlement will follow in between the two wars. Whatever it will take, it will at least promise to distinguish the fanning of both the threats.  

(1)   https://russiandefpolicy.wordpress.com/tag/viktor-ivanov/