Yeah, Afghanistan such a worthy cause… See, the funny thing about ME democracies is they always elect people that “we” don’t like. So we re-democratize them in the name of freedom.
In other words, the White House has decided to bite the bullet and keep the corrupt and ineffectual oil man that George W. Bush installed in office over the conquered land — no matter what the Afghan voters might want. And Galbraith’s continued insistence on actually investigating the vote fraud — which mirrors almost exactly the manipulations in Iran over which Obama and his war partners shed so many salt tears scant weeks ago — is now highly inconvenient. And so he is out.
Oh and Karzai’s brother is one of the biggest opium dealers in Afghanistan. Which actually works out for capital impaired US banks because the money winds up in them.
