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2009-01-25 Afghanistan

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Posted by tipper 2009-01-25 04:57|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Now if it was cutting Afghanistan adrift...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-25 08:41|| 2009-01-25 08:41|| Front Page Top

#2 It was a terrible mistake to leave any vestige of the old ways in the government of Afghanistan. "Cultural sensitivity" is bullshiat compared to efficiency in government. At the very start, we should have installed a military government, while the civilian government was being trained from scratch.

Future government ministers would be trained as office clerks, with promotion based solely on meritocracy and explicit following of directions. Then, when they run that office, they have their old boss as a watchdog over them until they work an entire year without screwing anything up or stealing anything.

This also means that in the cities, every child goes to a government run, western teacher taught school. Most of them live at the school as well. They wear uniforms, and their lives are totally controlled.

It ain't nice, but it is how you make civilization in a hell-hole backwater of a murderous disaster area.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-01-25 09:13|| 2009-01-25 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Karzai does absolutely zero for non-Pashtuns. And he stands in the way of operations against the heroin industry.

Last year he went on "60 Minutes" to condemn US field troops for a single errant bomb attack.

Lets not forget that it was the Pashtuns who allowed bin Laden to function as an arm of government.

Posted by Bill Shaith5362 2009-01-25 14:34|| 2009-01-25 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Find Donstum. Put him in charge. Give him some advisors and forget about it.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-25 16:14|| 2009-01-25 16:14|| Front Page Top

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