Reflections on the "New American" Revolution
Sunday, November 02, 2003
News: "The UN Security Council sent a high-ranking delegation to Afghanistan yesterday to bolster the country's leader, Hamid Karzai, amid signs that his authority is steadily slipping to powerful warlords and warnings that an opium boom could turn Afghanistan into a failed state run by drug cartels."
Another failure of the Bush "War on Terror" policy of attack with shocking power, then fail to follow up and win the peace. Less than 2 years after the fall of the Taliban, the new regime is failing. Why? Because the warlords, whom Bush financed, are now running the country. What do they want? Money and power. How do they get it? By cultivating and selling opium. And after just 2 years, they are now the biggest exporters of opium in the world. Congratulations on creating peace and prosperity, George.
Sadly, those drugs are going to kill US kids. Sadly, those warlords are not going to obey your man Karzai. Sadly, the Taliban are coming back, and killing Americans in Afghanistan. Your failures also include the fact that you haven't captured Bin Ladin or the Taliban leader. You have made an ally of a dictator in Pakistan. You have made an ally of the most depraved dictators in the former Soviet republics to the north of Afghanistan. Just a catalog of errors which will create more problems than they will solve.
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