Sunday, April 28, 2013
In a perfect world
You get what you pay for. In Shitholeistan, when you try to buy Karzai of the Afghans, well you might as well piss down a rat hole. And despite getting nothing of value from the President of All the Afghans, the CIA continues to drop off regular cash payments.
For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency.I guess they keep on pumping in money because they are afraid of losing him to the others who are paying him, like Iran. Or maybe they just don't know any better. One thing is certain, with the CIA so deeply involved, there must be a killer whorehouse in Kabul.
All told, tens of millions of dollars have flowed from the C.I.A. to the office of President Hamid Karzai, according to current and former advisers to the Afghan leader.
“We called it ‘ghost money,’ ” said Khalil Roman, who served as Mr. Karzai’s chief of staff from 2002 until 2005. “It came in secret, and it left in secret.”
The C.I.A., which declined to comment for this article, has long been known to support some relatives and close aides of Mr. Karzai. But the new accounts of off-the-books cash delivered directly to his office show payments on a vaster scale, and with a far greater impact on everyday governing.
Moreover, there is little evidence that the payments bought the influence the C.I.A. sought. Instead, some American officials said, the cash has fueled corruption and empowered warlords, undermining Washington’s exit strategy from Afghanistan.
“The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan,” one American official said, “was the United States.”
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