Sun, December 12, 2004
U.S. caught in Kabul
By Eric Margolis
Excellent news from Afghanistan. A new president, chosen in the country's first democratic election, has just been sworn in.
He pledges to extend democracy across Afghanistan, liberate and educate all women, and wipe out "the last remnants of Islamic terrorism" impeding economic and social development. Foreign troops supporting the Kabul government will remain only until security is assured and terrorism eliminated.
But this was not Kabul, Dec. 7, 2004, where the U.S.-installed regime of Hamid Karzai was inaugurated to great fanfare from Washington and the western media. Both hailed -- quite mistakenly -- "Afghanistan's first elections."
..... http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/12/12/778571.html
U.S. caught in Kabul
By Eric Margolis
Excellent news from Afghanistan. A new president, chosen in the country's first democratic election, has just been sworn in.
He pledges to extend democracy across Afghanistan, liberate and educate all women, and wipe out "the last remnants of Islamic terrorism" impeding economic and social development. Foreign troops supporting the Kabul government will remain only until security is assured and terrorism eliminated.
But this was not Kabul, Dec. 7, 2004, where the U.S.-installed regime of Hamid Karzai was inaugurated to great fanfare from Washington and the western media. Both hailed -- quite mistakenly -- "Afghanistan's first elections."
..... http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/12/12/778571.html
