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By: Allison Kilkenny - Unreported – War on Drugs doesn’t go well, CIA bugs DEA agent’s coffee table - True/Slant

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:54:44 +0000

[...] course, that’s essentially what’s happening in Afghanistan right now, except it’s all underground, and no one is saying out loud that the US government [...]

By: Matt Kane

Matt Kane — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:43:37 +0000

Two words: Iran-Contra

By: Matt Kane

Matt Kane — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:42:31 +0000

Thank you for bringing this back to the Soviet-Afghan War debacle of the 1980s. It seems that we as Americans have such short-term memory that we do not remember when Reagan called the mujahideen “Freedom Fighters” before offshoots of this C.I.A. funded and trained group (through Pakistan’s I.S.I., just for one more degree of separation) would go on to found, among other enterprises, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. It seems that by bankrolling Karzai we are simply heading down that same road.

It also throws a wrench into the whole “democracy” thing in Afghanistan. We are paying the president’s brother to carry out services for us; how much pressure can we now put on President Karzai when the entirety of both the U.S. and Afghanistan knows his brother is a CIA beneficiary? It seems that in the game of diplomatic leverage we’re currently losing.

By: Zaid Jilani

Zaid Jilani — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:08:04 +0000

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/10/faustian_bargains.html

That’s a report some colleagues of mine put out on the issue

By: davidlosangeles

davidlosangeles — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:42:22 +0000

Ms. Kilkenny,

This piece in the NYT combined with the piece from T/S’s Afghan Desk (P.J. Tobia) piece about the insurgents on Facebook

http://trueslant.com/pjtobia/2009/10/22/insurgent-who-aided-bin-ladens-escape-wants-to-be-friends-on-facebook/

make it clear that Afghanistan is a true hall of mirrors, no one is what they appear to be and what they are and appear to be change constantly. Everyone is playing both ends against the middle. More than every it is unclear what the political objectives of US / NATO military presence is.

By: Michael Hastings

Michael Hastings — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:17:32 +0000

Allison, amen. These facts do seem at odds with a hope for ‘a credible partner’ within the Afghan government,and other democracy promoting schemes.

By: Allison Kilkenny: CIA Pays Off Another Afghan Despot, Hopes For The Best | Obama Biden White House

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:17:11 +0000

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By: esil13

esil13 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:22:26 +0000

It has been rumored for years that the CIA uses drug money to fund it’s clandestine operations to avoid Congressional oversight. Any wonder the War On Drugs is a futile, and costly, failure?

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