From: Doug Thayer (d_l_thayer@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 18:07:50 MDT
The following article:
<http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/17/222243.shtml>
discusses US Aid to Afghanistan. Synopsis: $820 million proposed for
FY 2003, up from $569 million for 2002.
---- Doug On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:16:54PM -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote: > --- Damien Sullivan <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > > What the subject says; they're back, killing foreign > > workers and threatening > > Afghans. > > > > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=535&e=7&cid=535&u=/ap/20030407/ap_on_re_mi_ea/reviving_taliban> > According to the article, much of the problem simply > comes from the Afghan army and police not being paid, > and therefore abandoning their posts. I wonder if the > Bush administration could be convinced to do something > so simple as directly bankroll said police and > military, since it would advance their stated > anti-terrorism agenda (even if it would do little to > claim oil revenues, demonstrate the might of America's > army, et cetera)?
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