Afghanistan Is A Big Success
…But any failures are so totally not the military’s fault, and certainly not because of its leadership.
This, according to The Don Rumsfeld. He also insisted, in apparently broken English, the Afghans are “free. They have their own president, they have their own parliament. Improved a lot on the streets.”
Excuse the bloody mess while I bang my head on the concrete.
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Tags: Afghanistan, Skylarkings, US.
Posted by Joshua Foust on September 10th, 2007
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Time: 9/10/2007, 3:12 pm
Oh, Rummy. Which Afghanistan are you looking at? I’m sure there are a couple million Afghani citizens that wouldn’t mind moving to the one you describe.
Time: 9/10/2007, 3:14 pm
THE RUMSFELD IS NOT TO BE QUESTIONED.
Or so we’re told. Unknown unknowns and all that.
Time: 9/10/2007, 6:10 pm
I have little clue about the military problems in Afghanistan, but statistics show that the problem of drugs production after the Nato came to Afghanistan has only aggravated, and remains at the record high.
So, both the Nato and Afghan government can’t tell they have achievements in that field.
Time: 9/11/2007, 5:48 am
I’ve just found and read the original article on Rumsfeld. Here’s an excerpt that may be of interest here.
Quote:
” He explains that before he came back to government, he worked on microloans with some outfit doing work in India and was impressed by it. He wants to do it in Afghanistan. “The fourth thing we’ll do is be involved and interested in the Central Asian former Soviet republics.…” A brief history lesson, then an explanation of what the Big Goal is: “We talked about it and decided that these were four things that looked like it would be timely to be helpful on. Each of us believes in free political systems and free economic systems, and so that’s a thread that will run through. I just think there ought to be a way…to try to be helpful to these former Soviet republics in ways that make their transition from a communist system and a command economy to a free political system and a free economy better. So that is what we’re doing. If I do write a book, the funds from the book would go right into that foundation.” “
Time: 9/11/2007, 5:52 am
Oh, if somebody can’t resist the temptation to go off the record with Rumsfeld, here’s the link (to the first of no less than sixteen pages, be warned…):
“Off the record with Don Rumsfeld”
http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_5896&pageNum=1
Time: 9/11/2007, 5:55 am
Umm, I call BS on that too. Between 1990 and 2001 he sat on the board of Swiss engineering firm ABB, pulling $190,000 a year selling nuclear reactors to North Korea with KEDO under the First Agreed Framework.
Unless there was some magic philanthropy somewhere in there he only just now felt like discussing (with oh-so-convenient timing, too), I have a hard time believing that without any one else corroborating that.
Time: 9/10/2007, 2:29 pm
End of referred article:
“Asked if he missed Bush: “Um, no,” Rumsfeld said.”
Now are we missing this guy?