1/5 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/international/asia/06GRAF.html
Post Taliban corruption. I don't understand why Bush would promote
uni-lateralism in foreign policy on the one hand and then gang up
with mujahedeen thugs on the other hand. This will help breed
more terrorists in very little time. Where is Gen. Eisenhower and
Marshall?
\_ You misunderstand. You see we *rebuilt* Europe. There's never
been anything in Afghanistan. Ever. They don't have a legal
system, they don't have a government structure, there's nothing to
put back in place or rebuild because it was never there and they
don't have a cultural history of that sort of thing. All that stuff
is very western. Afghanistan is doomed until the Afghan people
decide to do something about it.
\_it's worse than nothing. the whole economy is heroin based.
the Taliban was the only regime that was able to stop
temporarily_/
the heroin trade, which is part of why they were so hated.
heroin warlords, and that's about it now.
\_ The Taliban curtailed some amount of heroin, maybe, but
hardly stopped it by any measure. I don't disagree with
your basic point, though. Anyway, the original poster will
"get it" as soon as s/he realises that this is a 12th
century pseudo monarchy system of lords and vassals, etc.
So they use ak-47s and old soviet tanks instead of maces
and horses, same idea. The place is doomed because without
a solid legal system corruption will always destroy any
attempts at developing anything else be it physical
infrastructure or a decent and just way of life for the
typical peasant. At least the lion in that zoo is finally
getting fed again. |
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