Iraq: the next Afghanistan
December 06, 2003
As George W. Bush sinks slowly in the West, let’s look at what he’s achieved at other points of the compass. Afghanistan? The US-appointed president, previously an associate of the Bush family in the oil industry, needs a Praetorian guard of Americans to keep him safe in Kabul.
Elsewhere in the country, the warlords are back in business, the opium poppies are blooming, heroin sales are booming and the country is returning to the same level of corruption and dysfunction that brought about the rise of the Taliban in the first place. Little wonder they’re regrouping in the south and south-east, preparing for another tilt at power. And don’t be too surprised if many in Afghanistan, embittered by America’s hit-and-run policy in regard to their long-suffering country, welcome them back. Meanwhile, bin Laden remains safe and well.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8030904%5E12272,00.html ******************
What an unholy mess George Bush and the Neocon-men have got us into