Afghan campaign guide

[George L. Singleton]

The attached lengthy 'virtual interview' by a Captain Carl Thompson, US Army appeared on Cryptome today and is a very interesting read: http://cryptome.net/0001/afghan-win.htm

Some reservations as I am unable to identify the original source or the author.

davidbfpo

Dave:

What we refer to as corruption is the daily life of Afghanistan, Pakistan, much of SW Asia, always has been and likely for generations to come will remain that way.

Whoever is on top, even the Taliban, they all are by our standards corrupt.

I had to learn to live with this sort of "stuff" back in the 1960s when posted to Karachi and Peshawar, with side trips to Kabul. It has not changed nor will it likely ever really change.

That is why I predict at best Afghanitan will finally end up as a monarchy, which is better than the Taliban alternative.