When I was in Peshawar on the Afghan border in 1989 there were a number of warlords under the pay of the CIA. Ian Wilson was there to preach the gospel; Charlie Wilson was there to dish out millions to the Mujahaddin( killers like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Dostan Mohammed, Wali Karzai and the like)
Spin the clock forward 22 years to yesterday.
Two seemingly unrelated events took place.
1) Wali Karzai, a warlord and brother of the Afghan President, was gunned down.
2) President Obama said unless the U.S. debt ceiling was raised America would not be able to pay its bills.
Where is the connection?
Currently the Afghan war is costing 2 billion dollars a day.
Untold amounts of this money are being funnelled in kick backs, bribes and pay offs to local thugs and militias and to Pakistan who sheltered Bin Laden.
All the while wonderful young people from our forces are paying the real cost of the war with blood.
MADNESS. But moral corruption always leads there!
The world would be a better place if everyone took their blankets, had their milk and cookie, listened to a story about Jesus and went to sleep for an hour every afternoon.
Ian
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