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@A-Team, @Sher Malang -- would love you comments on the points that Asharf Ghani's and Abdullah Abdullah's children live abroad?
@A-Team, @Sher Malang -- Gen Stanley McCrystal's comments on how many Afghan elites have their sons on the battlefield?
Excellent article on NYT here, excerpts below:
“Their own children study, live and are having fun in Europe and America,” Mr. Abas said. “They cruise in their armored Lexus in front of us and they don’t even slow down — we eat their dirt. And if we complain, they smash us in the mouth.”
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Mr. Ghani’s two children live in the United States. The families of his vice presidents reside in Turkey and Iran. The family of Abdullah Abdullah, the country’s chief executive, is in India. The families of the top cabinet ministers, presidential advisers, deputy ministers and even some agency directors all live abroad.
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In 2010, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, then the commander of United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan, raised the issue in an emotional meeting of President Hamid Karzai’s national security council as one reason he thought the war had lost focus and could not be won easily, according to notes of the meeting shared by one Afghan official at the meeting and confirmed by another.
“My father is 86, and he has a nephew fighting in Khost and another in Shindand,” General McChrystal said at the meeting. He added, “General Parker’s son lost his leg in Helmand,” referring to his British deputy, Gen. Nick Parker, whose son had two legs amputated after a roadside bombing. (In an email, General Parker said he had not been at the meeting himself but was later told about it by General McChrystal.)
General McChrystal then followed up with a question for the Afghan ministers at the table: “How many of you high-ranking Afghan officials have sons on the battleground?”
The silence was punctured by a senior security official making sure he had heard the question correctly through the translation on his headset.
@A-Team, @Sher Malang -- Gen Stanley McCrystal's comments on how many Afghan elites have their sons on the battlefield?
Excellent article on NYT here, excerpts below:
“Their own children study, live and are having fun in Europe and America,” Mr. Abas said. “They cruise in their armored Lexus in front of us and they don’t even slow down — we eat their dirt. And if we complain, they smash us in the mouth.”
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Mr. Ghani’s two children live in the United States. The families of his vice presidents reside in Turkey and Iran. The family of Abdullah Abdullah, the country’s chief executive, is in India. The families of the top cabinet ministers, presidential advisers, deputy ministers and even some agency directors all live abroad.
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In 2010, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, then the commander of United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan, raised the issue in an emotional meeting of President Hamid Karzai’s national security council as one reason he thought the war had lost focus and could not be won easily, according to notes of the meeting shared by one Afghan official at the meeting and confirmed by another.
“My father is 86, and he has a nephew fighting in Khost and another in Shindand,” General McChrystal said at the meeting. He added, “General Parker’s son lost his leg in Helmand,” referring to his British deputy, Gen. Nick Parker, whose son had two legs amputated after a roadside bombing. (In an email, General Parker said he had not been at the meeting himself but was later told about it by General McChrystal.)
General McChrystal then followed up with a question for the Afghan ministers at the table: “How many of you high-ranking Afghan officials have sons on the battleground?”
The silence was punctured by a senior security official making sure he had heard the question correctly through the translation on his headset.