"killfile" wrote in message
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That's the 'Fox News' summery, certainly. Outside of the cities, much of
Afghanistan is still controlled by the same warlords as it was under the
Taliban - they just switched flags after a big application of guns and
cash
from the CIA, and all of a sudden we've 'liberated the area'.
That"s absolutely correct and a well-documented *fact*.
Note : I see no problem in paying money to save lives, so long as you don't
fool yourself about this so-called "liberation".


Whatever you might think of the UN and Red Cross, they're actually
spending
money rebuilding Afghanistan, unlike the US - who haven't spent anything
like as much as they promised they would when the eyes of the world were
on
them. As I've said, Iran has given more aid to rebuild Afghanistan than
the
US so far.

I think those of us who aren't spitting froth and yelling "THE USA CAN DO
NO
WRONG!" can agree that the UN and ICRC are political entities, and their
attitude has a lot to do with being "Pro-Me" than "Anti-US". Russia and
France wanted to protect their financial interests in Iraq, and those two
countries were enough to derail the US and UK in their efforts to invade
^^^^^^^^
Iraq.
"Were not enough" you mean ?

The illusions of so many American about their country still surprises me.
This attitude of asserting against all evidence that *they* are right and
that the rest of the world is wrong as long as it disagrees with them, I
thought only the Soviets could do that. I was wrong.

(Note to prevent any stupid comment : I disapproved the behaviour of my own
French government about the war in Irak. But I also wish the Bush
administration didn't tell so much WDM bull****).

--
Hector