Roberto Abraham Scaruffi: Who 'Owns' Afghanistan?

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Who 'Owns' Afghanistan?

Western officials increasingly are defining their long-term goals exclusively in terms of the central government's ability to exert control over territory rather the presence of a functioning democracy, the rule of law, or prosperity and stability. Should the experiment founder or become perverted despite the money and lives invested, the likelihood of its being restaged could recede irrevocably. More