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2008-07-10 Afghanistan

Rife corruption allows rag-tag Taliban to win

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Posted by Fred 2008-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 See also WAFF.com Thread > THE RUSSIAN MILITARY IS CORRUPT [Mafia-Black Market].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-07-10 00:24|| 2008-07-10 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 What part of Americans-will-not-support-an-unwinnable-war-indefinitely don't the status quo mutts understand?

Posted by McZoid 2008-07-10 01:20|| 2008-07-10 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Those who remind 9/11. BTW your racist comments yesterday diodn't sit well with me.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-07-10 10:53|| 2008-07-10 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, this makes a point. When we came into Afghanistan, the place was an utter disaster. There was no government or any responsible social systems.

Yet our inclination was "Hey! Let's try to rebuild what is good here!"

Wrong. There was *nothing* good in Afghanistan. What they needed above all else were *replacement* systems of government and society that actually worked, not the utter crap they were used to.

The first thing we should have done is written them a constitution. One based in the US constitution, not those stupid and inefficient European ones. Find every adult male with a brain, and spend the next three months teaching him how to operate the constitution.

At the same time, we should have been teaching other men how to be lawyers and judges. COMMON LAW, not that utterly worthless Code Civil.

By law, every child in the country would have to go to public school. If they couldn't safely do it where they lived, then public boarding schools where it was safe.

And a *real* education, not a religious one.

All unemployed men would become minimum wage workers for the government, so there would be zero legal unemployment. These men would be set to work in rebuilding their country, while the money they earned went back to their wives and families. Because their minimum wage is almost nothing, this would not have been too expensive.

Every rural town would have been populated solely with working men, women, old people and children. So the town would be run by the women. The money sent home by their husbands would be used to start small businesses, so there would be something for the men to do when they came home.

Had we done this from the beginning, Afghanistan would be a very different place today, and we could probably be preparing to leave.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-10 14:40|| 2008-07-10 14:40|| Front Page Top

#5 At the same time, we should have been teaching other men how to be lawyers and judges. COMMON LAW, not that utterly worthless Code Civil.

Um Sharia is the Common Law in that region. You are perhaps speaking of English Commonlaw?

Posted by .5MT 2008-07-10 16:34|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-07-10 16:34|| Front Page Top

#6 This meant they had managed to get a large amount of explosives into the fortified city of Kabul and into one of its most securely guarded central areas.

Fortified? How? It's been a long time since any city had massive walls surrounding it, and only four ways in and out. The reality is that Baghdad, with its massive US presence, isn't able - to this day - to prevent IED's and car bombs. There aren't many occurrences, but they do exist. The attacks occurring in Afghanistan have nothing to do with the Afghan government being corrupt - they've got to do with it having nowhere near Iraq's resources. We're not spending nearly as much money in Afghanistan - in terms of aid or troops. And Afghanistan certainly doesn't have much money to spend - they don't have any oil, remember?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-07-10 20:48|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-07-10 20:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Um Sharia is Common Law? That would be news to Coke and Blackstone.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-10 22:28|| 2008-07-10 22:28|| Front Page Top

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