{"id":190267,"date":"2009-12-16T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/16\/what-the-hell-are-we-doing-in-afghanistan-again\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T21:30:00","slug":"what-the-hell-are-we-doing-in-afghanistan-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/16\/what-the-hell-are-we-doing-in-afghanistan-again\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell are We Doing In Afghanistan Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img8.imageshack.us\/img8\/2651\/ohsnap4580806ts7.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>Because Afghan President Hamid Karzai just gave a speech defending Kabul Mayor Abdul Ahad Sayebi, who was just sentenced to 4 years in prison <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5BD2J020091215\">at the Afghan anti-corruption conference<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Afghan President Hamid Karzai used a keynote anti-corruption speech on Tuesday to defend the most senior of his officials to be convicted of graft in years, a move that could anger Western backers who demand more accountability.<\/p>\n<p>The president opened a three-day, anti-corruption conference, which had been billed by diplomats as a sign that Karzai took seriously the West&#8217;s concern over an issue seen as key to winning popular support against a resurgent Taliban.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sound you hear is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_orwell\">Eric Arthur Blair<\/a> spinning in his grave at 4200 rpm.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, we need to get out now, because you can&#8217;t win hearts and minds with this corrupt ratf%$#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Afghan President Hamid Karzai just gave a speech defending Kabul Mayor Abdul Ahad Sayebi, who was just sentenced to 4 years in prison at the Afghan anti-corruption conference: Afghan President Hamid Karzai used a keynote anti-corruption speech on Tuesday to defend the most senior of his officials to be convicted of graft in years, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}