[美洲] 美国暂扣对阿富汗39亿美元援助 因阿国腐败

magasabah

% m2 l  ^1 k4 M# s- Z美国参议院6月30日以99票对0票,批准戴维·彼得雷乌斯出任驻阿富汗美军和北大西洋公约组织部队最高指挥官的提名。
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几个小时后,众议院一个委员会投票决定,暂时“扣留”39亿美元的美国对阿富汗援助款,理由是阿富汗政府腐败严重。
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! N3 m( T: f6 Q; I如多数人所预料,所有共和党和民主党议员一致投票支持彼得雷乌斯。但同时,许多议员不满美国对阿富汗战略。
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# `  q8 L$ c8 V: k5.39.217.76投票结束后,民主党参议员拉斯·范戈尔德直言,彼得雷乌斯是合适人选,但“无论谁出任最高指挥官,总统贝拉克·奥巴马的对阿富汗战略已经产生反面效果”。
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按日程,彼得雷乌斯6月30日飞往布鲁塞尔,与北约官员举行磋商,随后直接前往阿富汗上任。
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阿富汗局势持续恶化,北约和美军士兵伤亡持续上升。6月30日,塔利班向楠格哈尔省首府贾拉拉巴德机场发动袭击,这里建有北约驻阿富汗最大军事基地之一。5.39.217.76& }2 L+ ], a, `

$ u+ F  E1 j# B6 w5.39.217.76北约和美军驻阿前最高指挥官斯坦利·麦克里斯特尔上周因为“大嘴”遭解职。
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7 d, M3 Z* `. N( Q5.39.217.76奥巴马去年决定增兵阿富汗3万人,同时宣布2011年7月开始撤军。设定撤军期限引发不少争议。

felicity2010

This is one of the paradox of American policy. The war on Afghanistan started with the use of money as the main tool. The Northern Alliance (NA) was actually a group of warlords (legacy  of Afghan war on Soviet Union) that had only a remote semblance of unity. It is the US which practically used money as the enticement  to form a singular objective to fight the Taliban.Two weeks after 9/11, the agents of CIA flew to Panjsher Valley to hand out $3 millions to NA leaders, followed shortly with another $10 million. The continual payment (or bribe) was an essential ingredient to ensure these warlords' support of the Karzai administration. The exemplary example is General Fahim who bought up property and an entire gold market in Kabul. The Americans obviously underestimated the complexities of Afghanistan especially its intricate tribal relations. However the fatal flaw in the war policy is that there was no nation building objective in the initial plan.