| Afghanistan is suffering | | Print | |
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| Tuesday, 09 September 2003 00:00 | |||
 The situation in Afghanistan isn't pretty. The central government of Hamid Karzai has virtually no authority and no money, and would collapse without American guns. Al-Qaeda has not been defeated, and the Taliban are re-emerging. Almost two years after the American invation, the situation of women and children remains desperate. The token woman in Karzai's cabinet, physician Sima Samar, has been forced out of government and is now in constant fear of her life, with an armed guard outside her office door and another at her gate. Murder, rape and child abuse are committed with impunity by the private armies of America's "friends", warlords whom Washington has bribed with millions of dollars in cash in order to give the pretence of stability. According to the Asia Times, one approach that American's are taking to end the chaos is negotiating with the Taliban. They are negotiating to allow the Taliban into a new coaliton government. That's right, the same people that harbored al-Qaeda, abused women and blew up giant ancient Buddhas are now sitting at the negotiating tables with the Americans. These are the same people that supposedly Bush started a war to get rid of. It seems that not only is the administration worried about the chaos, but they are also worried about former Communists gaining power. Apparently stopping Afghani Communists who never attacked America is enough of a reason for Bush to work with those who harbored the terrorists that did attack us. Like in Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan shows that the Bush Administration is good at making messes, but not very good at fixing them.
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