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2006-01-28 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-01-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Government figures show that billions of dollars of aid have been disbursed, but given the little change in the lives of many people

Aghanistan could easily spend all that money just on roads and water wells. Let's just ignore the large amounts of funding that are going to train and equip the country's new police and army units, build schools and provide schoolbooks, and all those really basic things the Karzai government has been doing. Not to mention rebuilding that which the Taliban have been so avidly blowing up, removing mines and IEDs from the roads and fields, and so forth. And especially let's not mention the shockingly huge numbers of Afghan refugees that have returned home, most with nothing but more children and the clothes on their backs. "None so blind as those who will not see," indeed.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-28 11:59|| 2006-01-28 11:59|| Front Page Top

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