[Peace-discuss] Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan

[Jenifer Cartwright]

I think these guys are thrilled to have found an excuse to get out of fighting and funding an unpopular war, now that the polls are showing that the majority of voters oppose it. The real goal of every politician is to get reelected, and the corruption thing makes a great cover story/face saver. Could be wishful thinking on my part, of course...
 --Jenifer  

--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan
To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 11:24 AM


Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about
corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome?

There is something very Captain Renault about it. We're shocked,
shocked that the Afghans have sullied our morally immaculate
occupation of their country with their dirty corruption. How
ungrateful can they be?

But perhaps we should consider the possibility that our occupation of
the country is not so morally immaculate - indeed, that the most
corrupt racket going in Afghanistan today is the American occupation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/our-corrupt-occupation-of_b_356647.html

-- 
Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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