Monday, June 28, 2010
Why do we still support the Pashtun Al Capone?
The WaPo has another article starkly illuminating why we should just pack up our troops and equipment and bring them home now. Karzai of the Afghans has made his bed according to his lights now we should let him sleep int it.
Top officials in President Hamid Karzai's government have repeatedly derailed corruption investigations of politically connected Afghans, according to U.S. officials who have provided Afghanistan's authorities with wiretapping technology and other assistance in efforts to crack down on endemic graft.And our dollars and our soldiers are being spent to support this criminal enterprise. This is worse than if they had died in vain.
In recent months, the U.S. officials said, Afghan prosecutors and investigators have been ordered to cross names off case files, prevent senior officials from being placed under arrest and disregard evidence against executives of a major financial firm suspected of helping the nation's elite move millions of dollars overseas.
As a result, U.S. advisers sent to Kabul by the Justice Department, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration have come to see Afghanistan's corruption problem in increasingly stark terms.
"Above a certain level, people are being very well protected," said a senior U.S. official involved in the investigations.
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