The Chief wrote:Another issue that no one has yet posted here, are the ramifications of this whole gig if GM is found to be a fraud and having in fact acted financially inappropriately all at cost of the children of that region that he was supposedly helping. The Taliban will have a propaganda field day with this and it will only reinforce their ideology regarding any Westerner and their supposed compassionate ways. Yup... definitely a bigass growing concern for what the US has been trying to do over in both Pak and Afghanville if this goes down in a negative way.
The big picture friends... the big picture.
I find it hard to swallow that news of some misallocated school funds is going to sway Afghani/Pakistani sentiments of the US considering the United States toppeled the Afghan government, installed its own pro-US leader, and has militarily occupied the country for the better part of a decade. Maybe that was the Soviet's mistake? They misallocated some school funds and the whole country rebelled?