Saturday, June 25, 2011
Reason # 62849534 to withdraw from Afghanistan now
The International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank, is preparing to release a report on the state of the Afghan government. What they found makes all the reasons for staying in that shitty little war a lie.
The farmer picking apples in the outskirts of Kabul must pay the Taliban $33 to ship out each truckload of fruit. The governor sends in armed men to chase workers off job sites if the official bribes aren't paid. Poor neighborhoods never get their U.N.-provided wheat, long since sold on the black market.So for the next three years American troops will be maimed and killed to support a RICO enterprise. And taxpayers will be required to continue funding it. Thank you George W Bush and Barack H Obama for your shitty little war.
These are some of the elements, large and small, that together form the elaborate organized crime environment Afghans contend with daily. And despite the hoped-for success of the U.S. military surge and President Barack Obama's claims of significant progress, Afghanistan's resemblance to a mafia state that cannot serve its citizens may only be getting worse...
Nearly a decade after the U.S.-led military intervention little has been done to challenge the perverse incentives of continued conflict in Afghanistan," the research group says. Rather, violence and the billions of dollars in international aid have brought wealthy officials and insurgents together. And "the economy as a result is increasingly dominated by a criminal oligarchy of politically connected businessmen," the report concludes.
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