Click on title to link to "New York Times" (via the "Boston Globe', August 23, 2009) ) article by Carlotta Gill entitled "Observers Say Afghan Elections Marred" (the use of that last word is kind, to say the least).
Markin comment:
Sometimes the bourgeois press, and especially a key mouthpiece like the "Times" stumbles on the truth of a situation without really meaning to. Without getting too deep into analogies the various points made in this article remind me quite a bit of the election fetish of the Diem (and later) regimes in Vietnam in the early 1960s in order to appease the democratic 'sensibilities' of the American paymasters without, in the least taking cognisance of the social and political realities on the ground.
This article, probably more than anything that I or any other socialist or anti-war propagandist could say, succinctly puts the question of 'democracy' in Afghanistan and the rationale for the American imperial presence there in true perspective. But, just in case, there is any doubt about what is necessary to do in Afghanistan let me run the slogan one more time. Obama- Unconditional Withdrawal of All U.S./Allied Troops From Afghanistan. Now!
Karzai planned ahead for the elections, making deals with warloads, long ago.
ReplyDeleteThe Afghan War doesn't have the passioned opposition like Iraq. The bourgeoise press doesn't even cover Iraq anymore.