Mike Pouraryan
The eye-opening reporting in a recent edition of the Nation Magazine, Really Long Link outlined how the United States is actually funding the Taliban. What I also found even more disturbing was how a tight circle of the Afghan Elite is getting rich at the expense of the American Tax Payer who really does not know if it has a job tomorrow. Although some within the neo-con community want to fight for the sake of fighting, at some stage the fighting will have to give way to meaningful accomodation for the sake of the 27 Million Afghans who have known nothing but war for over 27 years. Will reason prevail?
On a side note, there is an apparent agreement between Iran and Afghanistan about cooperation on drug trafficking and terrorism. I laughed that the Government of Afghanistan even has the nerve to come to such an agreement when it can't even control her own Capital City. The words of Tariq Ali on Afghanistan are ever more true:
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