Afghanistan Circles the Drain 3

I have been tracking the slow decline of Afghanistan on this blog. As the press and the WH dance around hunting accidents, listening to people reading their newspapers in the bathroom, and executive branch tyranny, Afghanistan stands as one more example of the failed policies of this administration. ...

According to The Christian Monitor:

Grim phrases are on the lips of diplomats, government officials, and aid workers in Kabul when describing Afghanistan these days. Narco state, political disillusionment, military stalemate, donor fatigue, American military pullout.

Tie it all together, and it's a picture that suggests Afghanistan could be reverting back to a failed state. None of these issues is new, with the exception of the US decision to start drawing down its forces in Afghanistan and the expected arrival of NATO forces this summer. Yet four years after the government of President Hamid Karzai came to power, these various factors seem to be converging, with explosive results.

"This is what I keep explaining to the international community, these things feed each other, they are related," says Habibullah Qaderi, Afghanistan's minister for counternarcotics affairs. "There are two elements in terrorism. One is internal corruption, and the other is external interference. That is why we have problems. We have a corrupt administration, a corrupt government, and that is why people can't cooperate with us."

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• Afghanistan Circles the Drain 2
  
• What Secrets Wreak
  
• Al-Qaeda/Taliban Redux
  
• Afghani Women Left to Clean Up Mess of US...
  
• Afghanistan Circles the Drain
  
• Bush to Request $1.1B in Aid to Afghanistan
  
• Afghans Find Key Promises Unfulfilled
  
• Afghan Province's Problems Underline Challenge for U.S.
  
• Attacks Strain Efforts On Terror
  
• Afghani Women Tribute