Why are economic conditions of Afghans deteriorating now?
Friday, 19 December 2008
THEY say that six million Afghans are on the verge of starvation and the UN is in a quandary as to how to tackle the matter. After seven years of war and occupation, the Anglo-American-led NATO forces (the rest like Germany and others are not in the combat zones) also coyly called UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), have killed thousands of civilians, displaced hundreds of thousands of others, destroyed whatever little infrastructure the Afghans had, and now brought many of those people to the verge of starvation. In other words, the Afghans are no better off today than they were seven years ago even after US$ 40 billion dollars, or at least much of it, had been pumped into that country. That a lot of that money has gone back through the US and other non-Afghan contractors and subcontractors is a well known fact.
And what is Karzai doing? We don't know for sure what his detractors tell us, that he was a mid-level CIA clerk before the Americans put him where he is now, but what we do know is that he has failed as a leader. As a former UN official to Afghanistan said: Karzai is incompetent. But listen to the Anglo-Americans who continue to tell us how pious their intentions are in Afghanistan because they have put up the best man to run it.
The occupying force is getting a bloody nose every now and then and then they go and bomb civilians -- for the same reasons they are doing it in Iraq -- to teach them a lesson.
Even in their cross border aerial bombardments in Pakistan, on what they claim to be the enemy bases, they have been killing civilians but listen to them say how they are "assisting the Afghan Government in extending and exercising its authority and influence across the country, creating the conditions for stabilisation and reconstruction."
Very few around the world, including people in the US and Britain, believe that the so-called the "Afghan Government" exists beyond the guns of the occupation forces. (Funnily, they say the same of Iraq that all their ministers are ministers inside the so-called Green Zone).
So the Afghans will starve and many will die if they don't get killed first by the 'benevolent' forces occupying their country.
Rajib
Uttara, Dhaka
And what is Karzai doing? We don't know for sure what his detractors tell us, that he was a mid-level CIA clerk before the Americans put him where he is now, but what we do know is that he has failed as a leader. As a former UN official to Afghanistan said: Karzai is incompetent. But listen to the Anglo-Americans who continue to tell us how pious their intentions are in Afghanistan because they have put up the best man to run it.
The occupying force is getting a bloody nose every now and then and then they go and bomb civilians -- for the same reasons they are doing it in Iraq -- to teach them a lesson.
Even in their cross border aerial bombardments in Pakistan, on what they claim to be the enemy bases, they have been killing civilians but listen to them say how they are "assisting the Afghan Government in extending and exercising its authority and influence across the country, creating the conditions for stabilisation and reconstruction."
Very few around the world, including people in the US and Britain, believe that the so-called the "Afghan Government" exists beyond the guns of the occupation forces. (Funnily, they say the same of Iraq that all their ministers are ministers inside the so-called Green Zone).
So the Afghans will starve and many will die if they don't get killed first by the 'benevolent' forces occupying their country.
Rajib
Uttara, Dhaka