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Posted on 04/08/2010 2:39:07 PM PDT by jazusamo
Much has been said and written this week about recent inflammatory comments made by President Hamid Karzai, head of the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan — an entity widely abbreviated out here as GIRoA. He has publicly railed against "interference" by the West, demanded that the U.N. cease complaining about corruption, even defiantly threatened to abandon GIRoA and join the Taliban. The fact is, GIRoA hardly exists outside of Kabul and where it is extant it is often corrupt.
Money from opium and hashish fuel the Taliban, pay for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that kill and maim Americans and Afghans alike and wreak havoc on GIRoA credibility. Our allies, all 43 of them in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) coalition, know this to be so. The Taliban know it is true. Whether he acknowledges it or not, Hamid Karzai knows it. So do the people of Afghanistan. And therein is the biggest challenge for successfully concluding this conflict.
Over the past month, our Fox News team has accompanied combined U.S. and Afghan units in four of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. We have heard scores of Afghan men at shuras (loose translation: meetings) with coalition forces — women do not attend — blatantly condemn government corruption. "We trust you (Americans), but we don't trust them (GIRoA)," is a common refrain. If that sentiment isn't repaired, Afghanistan could descend into anarchy, like that which led to the Taliban first seizing power in 1996 after a bloody civil war that destroyed the civil institutions and infrastructure of this country.
Now, after nearly nine years of war, Afghanistan desperately needs rule of law. U.S. and allied military power alone cannot create a system of justice that holds criminals in this country accountable...
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Lamh Foistenach Abu!
If we had a real American as President, he'd be told that we'd drop a hellfire on his a$$ if he even smirks again.
BTTT
Thanks for the ping jaz. We wouldn’t learn of these efforts with out his reporting.
So, where do the Libertarians stand on THIS particular battlefield in the War On Drugs? How would legalizing drugs help this?
Hah! Good question. Of course it’s beyond our countries borders so in effect it doesn’t exist, especially because it’s a war.
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