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29th-Oct-2006 03:22 pm
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Here’s a Q&A session with a BBC reporter who spent some time with Taleban fighters in Helmand province. One interesting quote:
I was shocked to see soldiers from the newly-formed Afghan national army taking money at gunpoint from every car that passed. This was happening on the main road linking Iran to Pakistan across the south of Afghanistan, and has powerful resonances since it was to stop corruption on this very road that the Taleban first emerged, with some popular support, in 1994. The trucking companies are paying the Taleban again to see if they can clear the road for them again.
Aren’t we lucky we spent all that blood and money to build a modern, pluralistic democracy and a functioning government in Iraq?
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29th-Oct-2006 05:54 pm (UTC)
[info]moechus
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm in your post?

If so, it is fortunate that we have suspended the writ of habeas corpus and that the President now has the tools he needs to deal with those (such as yourself) who would undermine our war effort.
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