You can pay as much as you like to the Taliban, but it will never be enough to compensate for all the money they make out of refining heroin.
The people who need the money will not be the ones who receive it, the local Governers will do what they do know, keep it for themselves.The Afghan Government is corrupt, officials buy their jobs, ie the head of the airport in Kabul buys his job from the Government in 2006 he paid $250,000 not easy achievable on even a Colonels pay in Afghanistan, incidentely the same guy was in charge of the Poli Charki prison in Kabul when the Taliban run the show, nice bloke !!so much for a new regime.
The people in Afghanistan live for today, there has never been a tommorrow so they will take and take and take and never be happy so will
fight you or the ones who have so they have more.
Unfortunately IMO if you pay them you are paying twice as the heroin will still find its way into Europe and continue to be responsible for 90% of the crime we have. I see the future as only one of conflict, slight troop reduction in numbers but constant training teams in theatre and selective operations against key targets.
I have worked there as a soldier on several tours and as a member of SOCA and was in Khandahar with the USMC when they captured it, i took part in poppy irradication operations a year later, we paid them to not grow poppies, guess what the crops have increased since then as the Taliban do not control the whole industry and those we paid just moved the farming to another field, no easy solution but long term occupation and conflict for a long time yet.
