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  • wc_news@email .wcu.edu Dont Forget Afghanistan EDITORIAL _ This editorial first appeared in the Los Angeles Times: Hamid Karzai, the interim Afghan president, correctly postponed his nations scheduled June elections for president and parliament. His decision realistically reflects Afghanistans woeful security and its continuing struggle against chaos, this more than two years after the ouster of the Taliban. As with Iraq, the initial U.S.-led military offensive in the nation that provided haven for Al Qaeda was successful. And, as with Iraq, reconstruction has been tougher than Washington thought. Afghanistans civil aviation minister was killed last week in circumstances that validated the fears of those who felt Washington has moved too slowly to help restore security, especially outside of the capital, Kabul. Mirwais Sadiq was killed pursuing a warlord feuding with Sadiqs father, who is also a warlord but happens to Bek 4 double as governor of Herat province in western i So how about it, Inglewood? How much are you willins to p : : : Bee ~~ This time, it isn tabout the virtues or the villain of Wal- Mart - _ Afghanistan. Karzai recognizes that warlords undercut the bo eae cys central government. They collect taxes needed by his government, but they overlook opium production or take a cut from the proceeds now estimated to equal half : ien't about the un unions pitched battle. against a company at undercuts union wage and bet fits by half. (Its'a delish little counterpoint that the people d'to fan out across i Inglewoo to. gather signatures to put. this. initiative.on the ee pa $12 an hour more than the countrys legal economy. ~~ theyd-get if they started working at Wal-Mart.) we A donors conference opening today in Berlin tee . This time, its about Wal-Mart using the system to ay. ihe syster is likely to produce high-flown rhetoric and pledges of 2 upon itself, like a dogfight. Oh, its aid, but nothing matching Karzais desires. Afghanistan __ eyes and protesting, But its direct ee Vd call it a direct Toute to i seeks almost $28 billion in the next seven years; few / meena expect more than $5 billion to be pledged. The U.N, said = this week that Iraq, with about the same population as Afghanistan, gets 10 times the aid. But Afghanistans needs are far greater: The 1979 Soviet invasion and campaign. finance reforms Or property tax limits. ; subsequent combat destroyed almost all its roads, left 20 ee ~ But Teally, do you want initiatives on the ballot for technical ristters? You hive city million land mines planted across the country and a planners and zoning experts for the same reason you hire a doctor to take out your appendix or an. reduced many buildings to rubble. Yet experts estimate electrician to wire your house - you-cant do it-yourself. Dont give-a-voter like: me control-over Afghanistan receives $67 per person in foreign aid __. Siigineering and zoning considerations. A sufficiently slick a Coe might perguade me compared with $248 a head to rebuild Bosnia- red licorice is. as.good.a building material as. steel... : oe H 4 d $256 per capita in postwar Bast Ti Ths initiativ is Tt pages long about the same niuber of pages in all six sections of ees ee ine oe Bey SDH nD a yesterday s newspap . Have Inglewoods voters read it? H ve they even seen it? Are they Teady. to... One hopeful sign is the lessening of the desertion cs : rs of aquifer recharge and- Pe emi i characteristics, and how many tate for the Afghan army, under training by the U.S. and he initiative, France. The army has about 9,000 soldiers, 1,000 short of its June target. Another reason for optimism was last weeks establishment of a provincial reconstruction team TEP Il of the standards, criteria, procedures for review (includ in the province of Khost. These teams, with up to 100 procedures) ) and other requirements of Chapter DE members, include soldiers to provide security and L Le i citys reviewing official shall be beat to issue t civilians to rebuild roads, schools and clinics in the few ' ae eee bane hee a Ar aber oe oa oe in Afghanistan have at. etch is null and void." os politcal coup. deat by corporation. ; : : y after this thing passes launched a spring offensive along the Pakistan border to hunt Taliban and Al Qaeda members, especially Osama bin Laden and his top aide, Ayman Zawahiri. able to dump ~~ Unfortunately, Pakistani soldiers botched an anti-terrorist cheaper! (and incidentally. campaign on their side of the border this month, out of ive your kids three cas and eight fingers). If Wal-Mart can do it, so can we! ineptness or solidarity with the Taliban. Pakistans cooperation in the anti-terrorism effort is still woeful. It ; needs to press harder; the U.S. and other countries need : _ Before. you vote, and ctor you sha read the real. price t tag No ju t the iu ida Sige to match money and troops to their rhetoric and stop oe that big:screen TV. Afghanistan from backsliding into the depths. 2004 LA TIMES to get tid of those ve!.(and incidentally. TELLER EER OME A b te &, 3 he tw &
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