As previously noted, the sitch in Afgahnistan isn't improving with 1600 Crew wishful thinking. While the Iraqi flailings are far more attractive to the media for what ever reason (correspondants wanting to "earn their bones in combat zones") or whatever, there just isn't a lot coming out of Afghanistan. There should be more. Much more. For instance, Mullah Omar has ordered new attacks, and appointed new commanders in southern Afghan areas, Warlords aren't too keen to see us work up a new constiitution hand-in-hand with our duly appointed pawn, Hamid Karzai.
Warlords are creating "a climate of fear" in Afghanistan that is threatening efforts to draft a new constitution and could derail national elections expected next year, a human rights group said.
In a report released Monday night, Human Rights Watch accused soldiers and police loyal to powerful warlords - many of whom are in the government - of kidnapping, extortion, robbery and the rape of women, girls and boys. The New York-based group also detailed numerous death threats against Afghan journalists and low-level politicians who criticized authorities.
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"External support for warlords is destabilizing Afghanistan," Adams said. "The United States and the United Kingdom, in particular, need to decide whether they are with President Karzai and other reformers in Kabul or with the warlords. The longer they wait, the more difficult it will be to loosen the warlords' grip on power."
It just keeps getting better doesn't it?. If the $1 billion the 1600 Crew have promised gets there, will it be too little too late? Sounds like a months worth of profit from the newly resurgent warlord-driven opium trade to me.
And we still have not got a clue about where either Mullah Omar and of course Osama bin Laden are. Is that due to 'murky intelligence", or the fact that we should have finished one job first?
