tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post5122488047409309249..comments2023-10-30T06:31:05.501-07:00Comments on MilPub: Let Freedom Reign - Afghan Kleptocrat Edition!FDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-50604713827172154462011-02-08T01:52:49.330-08:002011-02-08T01:52:49.330-08:00"if an Afghan aspires to be a district police..."if an Afghan aspires to be a district police officer, he must often pay a significant amount, around fifty thousand dollars, to his boss, who is often the provincial police chief"<br /><br />My idea of simply writing off what existed in 2001 and starting over sounds better and better the more I read.<br />Obviously much to late for Afghanistan, but a lesson for future disasters.Domohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240964731398145995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-84187510747153520442011-02-01T09:25:06.954-08:002011-02-01T09:25:06.954-08:00The thing that's so fucking frustrating is tha...The thing that's so fucking frustrating is that this was so damn predictable. Afghanistan is Afghanistan because it doesn't HAVE any sort of social, political, or economic tradition that would push the country in the direction of a stable, honest, open political and economic system. Like a lot of the world, Afghanistan rests on a foundation of personal loyalties; family first, then clan, then "tribe" (that is, the group of families related in one fashion or another). Outside of the Western developed world the ties above this level are so weak as to be practically nonexistent.<br /><br />So the perfectly inevitable, preditable result of flooding a place like Afghanistan with crazy money was that the people who were in a position to get their hands on the money made sure that as much of it went into their own pockets and the pockets of their cronies as possible. The fact that some of the cronies were on the "other side" shouldn't be surprising; this is a civil war, after all.<br /><br />Before we get too snotty, let's recall that people like the Abramoffs and the Kenny Lays were doing pretty much exactly this only without involving Islamic guerrillas.<br /><br />What a fuckstory.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-74203398148382016402011-02-01T08:59:44.016-08:002011-02-01T08:59:44.016-08:00Chief,
Cultures do not collide-people with guns co...Chief,<br />Cultures do not collide-people with guns collide.<br />These people represent their cultures.<br />US policy ALWAYS supports the pimps and whores.<br />jimjim at rangerhttp://rangeragainstwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-381917167978264683.post-33860903350635035892011-01-31T21:11:53.278-08:002011-01-31T21:11:53.278-08:00Perhaps Gen. Petreaus should be draining that othe...Perhaps Gen. Petreaus should be draining that other swamp, the Everglades. I suspect many of our Tunisian, Algerian, Egyptian, Jordanian and Afghan friends will be needing someplace to live large in 2012. We could call it Centcomistan.srvnoreply@blogger.com