U.S. President Barack Obama (R) turns to Afghan President Hamid Karzai as he addresses a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 11, 2013.
A Complete US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Would Be 'A Complete Catastrophe' For Civilian Aid -- Business Insider/Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For years, U.S. officials have pointed to the improvements in the everyday lives of Afghans made possible by billions of dollars in aid from the United States and elsewhere.
In Afghanistan, people now live 20 years longer on average than under Taliban rule, they say; 7 million more children attend school and women are 80 percent less likely to die in childbirth.
The specter of an abrupt departure of all U.S. and NATO soldiers from Afghanistan at the end of next year now imperils these gains, they warn, and endangers progress on the massive development challenges that remain.
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My Comment: The Afghans are the ones who must decide their own fate .... if they want to go it alone without international aid .... that is something that they must decide upon and we in the West must respect.
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There is no such thing as Western Aid to Afghanistan. Never was. Never will be.
When the west gives aid to Afghanistan it is in the form of round-trip money for western equipment, western ordnance, western construction contractors and building developers (the kind of useless buildings no one will use and not infrastructure) and most importantly aid to western security firms.
The money coming out of the western bank accounts, financial instruments, state department laundry, DoD funds, NGOs, non-profits and treasuries are written off as losses and/or tax-free aid to the aid providers be they individuals or institutions. The money comes right back to the western countries and/or their money laundering accounts in third countries for the extraordinary hyper-inflated priced security, equipment and/or ordnance.
In return, countries like Afghanistan, for the benefit of protecting the Mayor of Kabul - Hamid Karzai and his Heroin Empire - accept the billion$ in aid for F-16s flyovers, all sorts of Drones, excessive gasoline, shoulder-fired missiles and Xe-Blackwater private militia assistance with the binding promise to pay interest charges for the overpriced aid they never got that Osama bin-Laden and Muslim Brotherhood Zawahiri often criticized as "usury."
International Aid means money accounting for permission to use land property for real live ammo War Games.
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