Tea proposal

I have previously researched the world governments' negligence to fair trade policy and their attempt to cover up any unfair trade they conduct for my two papers. I have already mentioned problems associated with tea trade being the direct cause of WTO's current trade policies. In my proposal, I would be using the Public Citizen's proposal to the U.S congress given on April 19th 2007 to present a solution to the fair trade problems associated with tea trade. The proposal itself does not talk about tea trade but it proposes the u.s government from taking control of the WTO. Public Citizen brings up the U.S's "strategic tariff" on agricultural goods as a part of developmental tools. They oppose president Bush's plan to directly control the WTO by using the Doha resolution. This proposal is confusing to understand without any knowledge of any resolutions they mention and they do not propose a specific plan that is unnecessarily helpful to the fair trade. However, they are one of the first groups to come directly to congress to criticize the government. It shows that the public is taking a right step to correct the problem the government wants people to forget about.

Opium Policy

The policy I plan to advocate in my essay is proposed by two students (Doctoral and Masters) that are members of a think tank called Foreign Policy in Focus. They propose a solution that is not as simple as aerial spraying of opium crop etc., but they approach it in a more logical way and from a political perspective.
They suggest that the first thing to do is give the Afghan farmers incentive to farm crops other than opium. They say that one of the main reasons the Afghani farmers choose to farm opium is because they need the money. They further discuss that money is donated to the farmers to aid them, but it never reaches them because of the corrupt officials in Afghanistan. Their policy calls for the president of Afghanistan to "clean up" his political system, to ensure that the farmers will recieve the money that they so desperately need.
Another aspect of the solution they present is to draw farmers away from Taliban involvement or being recruited into the Taliban by Taliban recruiters. The proposal is that the Taliban can be brought out of the farming Industry, and then it is up to the Afghan government how they want to deal with the Taliban.
This seems to me like it is the best solution, because it is totally reasonable and there is no great error with the logic involved. The other solutions, such as legalization or aerial spraying have bad side effects. There is no quick and easy solution to this problem, and it will take a lot of bargaining and dealing with the farmers, government and Taliban, but this way a solution can be met.