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2003-06-03 Afghanistan

Afghan soldiersâ wages paid - customs revenues collected.

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Posted by liberalhawk 2003-06-03 12:10 pm|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hope those that are calling Iraq a "quagmire" are made aware of this development. It takes a while for things to get moving, but they do eventually move after a sufficient application of force and persistence.

Posted by Dar 2003-06-03 12:25:32|| 2003-06-03 12:25:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Khan most likely decided it was better to turn most of the money over to Karzai (bet he still "wets his beak") than to chance loosing it all.

Posted by Steve 2003-06-03 13:00:31|| 2003-06-03 13:00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 afghanistan is not a quagmire, but it sure doesnt seem that the admin is paying it any great attention - i mean its pretty desperate that it finally had to come to this - I think with a greater commitment of money and attention, we might have gotten things a good bit further along by now, which would have helped our global strategy. I dont attribute this to Iraq - the neglect began before that.

and i still think we'd be better off paying more attention there.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-06-03 15:21:02|| 2003-06-03 15:21:02|| Front Page Top

#4 "Aid to Kosovo per capita is still 25 times higher than aid to Afghanistan"

Fareed Zakharia, MSNBC

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-06-03 15:39:43|| 2003-06-03 15:39:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, but the cost of living is higher in Kosovo too, LH. MUCH higher.

It took what, 16 months for Karzai to pull together a large, trained army and produce the muscle to make the warlords back down? Excellent job.

It'll be somewhere around the 18-24 months for similar good news to come out of Iraq. We're simply in a transition period right now...it'll be rough, but it'll work. Most Iraqis WANT it to work.

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-06-04 04:40:58|| 2003-06-04 04:40:58|| Front Page Top

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