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To: Keith Feral who wrote (204360)	9/26/2006 10:29:51 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hamid Karzai is swimming up stream. He may desire reform, but seeing his vision through will be difficult. In this case it would require the cooperation of a Pakistan that is retreating from its posture of fighting extremism.

To: Keith Feral who wrote (204360)	9/27/2006 12:33:15 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Karzai is President of central Kabul and only because he has American troops protecting him. These people are in a religious culture that gives them no opportunity to have economic freedom. They are banned from even taking out business loans, since it is forbidden to pay riba (interest) on loans. They grow figs and almonds and use cooking oil to heat goat meat. That is the extend of non oil produced economic activity. THESE people produce 90% of the world's opium to make heroin. A heck of a cash crop far superior to the wheat (from a capitalist perspective) they were growing under the Taliban.