Admiral Mullen
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 5:45 am
C'mon, does any general really expect things to change in Kabulistan?
"...and I've said this many times -– the military side of this is just a necessary side of it. It's not sufficient. There's got to be decent governance at the local level –- in the local villages, local districts, in the provinces; there's got to be –- there's got to be resources that flow to those provinces and people; and we've got to get to a point where the Afghan people trust their own government.
And that speaks to governance, it speaks to corruption, and corruption is still a huge challenge. There's -– certainly the goal is not to eliminate all corruption, but the Afghan people have to feel as though they're working for a government that's working for them, and too many of them right now don't feel that way."
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Uh, General...people in our own country don't trust our government and their corrupt practices...don't expect to be able to set anything up in Kabul that will work. Affy is doomed to be a backwater full of bickering inbreds with drugs and guns. Get our people out.
"...and I've said this many times -– the military side of this is just a necessary side of it. It's not sufficient. There's got to be decent governance at the local level –- in the local villages, local districts, in the provinces; there's got to be –- there's got to be resources that flow to those provinces and people; and we've got to get to a point where the Afghan people trust their own government.
And that speaks to governance, it speaks to corruption, and corruption is still a huge challenge. There's -– certainly the goal is not to eliminate all corruption, but the Afghan people have to feel as though they're working for a government that's working for them, and too many of them right now don't feel that way."
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Uh, General...people in our own country don't trust our government and their corrupt practices...don't expect to be able to set anything up in Kabul that will work. Affy is doomed to be a backwater full of bickering inbreds with drugs and guns. Get our people out.