Afghan corruption: Everything for sale

Kept afloat by billions of dollars in American and other foreign aid, the government of Afghanistan is shot through with corruption and graft. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
3.8
by Jack Dinkmeyer - Jan. 2, 2009

Classic journalism. A good story supported by interviews, research, and accounts of individual experiences. Troubling journalism. If this country is the real battleground of terrorism, the absolute corruption of everyone in leadership of a government “taken over by drug traffickers” may doom America’s role to a fate similar to Iraq. After all, it was Afghanistan, not Reagan, that was really a major factor in the fall of Communist Russia.

Wholesale corruption. Everything in the country for sale. Reminds one of Cheney and Bush.

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