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From: barry levine
Date: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Subject: re: Envoy Says Corruption Helps Taliban Win Recruits
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine
Date: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Subject: re: Envoy Says Corruption Helps Taliban Win Recruits
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
Before we send another body or another bullet to Afghanistan, we need to know more clearly what ambassador Holbrooke means by "adequate precautions to cut down on the misuse of billions of dollars in American aid". Every day that the U.S. is perceived by Afghans to be supporting a corrupt regime moves us farther from credibility, farther from security and farther from peace. We lost in Vietnam pouring our resources into propping up a corrupt and unloved government there. It would be unjust to ambassador Holbrooke to conclude from his bland dismissal that he treats corruption lightly. It would be a graver injustice to our armed forces to spend their efforts and their blood in a futile effort to prop up yet another corrupt U.S. puppet.
Barry Levine
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