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| Afghanistan Should Not be Abandoned Again: Afghan Senators |
| 2012-05-23 |
| [Tolo News] Afghanistan's senators welcomed the conclusions of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... summit and its partners in Chicago, but are wary about trusting the promises being made. The experience of the 1990s when Afghanistan slid into civil war following the fight against the Soviet occupation and the departure of the US has left some senators concerned that the statements being made on commitment to Afghanistan were too ambiguous. "The [long-term] commitments being made towards Afghanistan are ambiguous up to now; the international community should not abandon Afghanistan and repeat the mistakes of 90s," Senate vice chair Mohammad Alam Ezdyar said Tuesday. "This would not be beneficial to the whole world." Senator Sayed Farukh Shah Jenab, who hailed the summit as an historic event, also said the presence of Pakistain in Chicago and its failure to solve the problem of the closed supply route across its border had boosted the world's understanding of Afghanistan's plight. "Even though the financial commitments are not still clear, the Chicago summit has benefitted Afghanistan anyway," he said. "The humiliating presence of the Pak president in the summit was also a positive message for Afghanistan." One senator stressed that more attention needed to be paid to the international aid being sent to the country - if it is misused, then Afghanistan will not develop. "If corruption continues, Afghanistan will remain poor despite the international aid," Senator Lailuma Ahmadi said. "Your cut, sir." "Oh. Thank you! Thank you very much!" |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 In other words, give us free stuff until the end of time. The funny thing is that most countries more or less make their own way after help has been rendered, and in fact, spend the next few decades paying off their war debts. Communist Vietnam spent decades paying the Soviets for the equipment used to conquer the south. Communist China repaid its Korean War-related debt to the Soviets within a decade even as tens of millions of Chinese starved to death. The Afghans have the temerity to not only not think about repaying some of the aid - they want it to continue into the foreseeable future. You gotta love the sense of entitlement. (I think we'll have to continue funding these troglodytes just to offset the Pakistani subsidy to the Taliban, but it's jarring to hear these people talk as if we owe them). |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2012-05-23 17:55 |