CNN is actually covering Afghanistan?

Reporter talking to Chritiane Amanpour via a phone:

Its been two years since Bush promised a 'Marshal Plan' and the capture of Omar and Bin Laden, yet that hasn't happened. Talked about the violence and how they're might not be enough troops... and the debate on whether they should extend the power base outside of KAbul

e have liberated the women and people of Afghanistan.

I thought the Amerikkan media had totally forgotten about Afghanistan... you know, it's so "yesterday's news." How many of you think the current Afghan govt will last out the year?

Oh, and about Osama still running about on the loose and the Taliban making a roaring comeback? I guess we need to take a page from Babs Bush's playbook -- don't worry our beautiful minds about it.

sigh

and they will -

and the poor US Media will have one more thing to ignore-

as they wonder why readership and viewership is dropping.

Eric Margolis' Sunday column on Afghanistan, oil and drugs:


"Not only are the U.S. and its allies mired in an intensifying guerrilla war in a chaotic nation, they now find themselves in league with world-class drug dealers.

...

"After Indochina and Central America, the U.S. once again finds itself in bed with major drug dealers. The Bush administration has reportedly ordered agents from its own Drug Enforcement Agency in Pakistan to turn a blind eye to the narcotics dealing of its Northern Alliance allies.

Well-meaning but ill-informed Canadians now join the endless Afghan war as part of the imperial garrison in Kabul. By helping protect Karzai and the Northern Alliance, Canada, like the U.S., has become an unwitting, but very real, accessory to the international heroin trade, and the partner of a criminal regime."

http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_aug17.html

after the 9/11 attack, has just sent 2000 troops to Afghanistan to help with the problems there...Apparently they are in dangerous territory...Ooohh where does it all end?????