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Sunday, October 17, 2004 |
 NYTimes. Thomas Friedman does a great job with his three babybooms article.
2:36:29 PM 
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This is the start of the end of the Karzai government. "Removing warlords is one of my promises," he (Karzai) said in an interview yesterday. "Nobody should have a private militia in Afghanistan any more, period. The only entities in this country that should have weapons are the army and police." "The fight against drugs will be top of my agenda," Karzai said. "That means fighting drugs everywhere – inside and outside the government. We must get rid of this." The elections were only possible as long as the opium flowed and the warlord run paramilitaries that profited by it were left alone. Only the Taliban were left outside the process. He is now about to radically widen the opposition, to his undoing, by trying to centralize control of the country in the hands of the state. He is learn how semi-loyalist paramilitaries can back-fire.
2:14:19 PM
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NYTimes. Hey, cool. Bruce Hoffman (of RAND) and Anthony Cordesman, both regular readers of Global Guerrillas, are in line with its message. However, they would be better off hiring me.
11:38:42 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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