[Peace-discuss] Afghanistan update

[Al Kagan]

This quote is from Friday's New York Times, p. A21, from a column by 
Paul Krugman:

The most obvious example is Afghanistan, the land the Bush 
administration forgot.  Most of the country is back under the control 
of fundamentalist warlords; unpaid soldiers and policemen are 
deserting in droves. (Remember that the Bush administration forgot to 
include any Afghan aid in its latest budget).

President Hamid Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, told an 
Associated Press reporter: "It is like I am seeing the same movie 
twice and no one is trying to fix the problem.  What was promised to 
Afghans with the collapse of the Taliban was a new life of hope and 
change.   But what was delivered? Nothing. Everyone is back in 
business."
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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