The CIA To The Rescue.

OK, we all know how much is at stake in Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan. If we can't turn Afghanistan around, it'll return to being a staging area for terrorism here in America. In Pakistan, well they have the bomb, and if the terrorists get any kind of control, there's going to be real problems. One of the Afghan problems has been corruption in the government. Now we have some of that right here, but nothing like the scale of Afghanistan. Pres. Karzai has promised to root it out. Of course with the likes of his own family involved it's really hard. The U.S. is helping. One way it's helping is to find out that our CIA is paying at least one of the bad guys. So how's Karzai supposed to root out the bad guys when we're paying them to keep it up. And we've been doing it for years. Now, far be it for me to tell them how to handle their own business, but don't you think we ought to all be on the same page? I mean if we want to get rid of some bad guys, is it a good idea to keep paying them? I mean if you hang a bird feeder up, don't you think the birds will keep coming back as long as you feed them? Well these birds in Afghanistan are still coming back for more. Wouldn't you? After all, it's free money. These guys think they've won the lottery. A thousand a week for life. Probably more than a thousand. I bet the strategy is to give them so much money they won't have time to be corrupt. Too busy counting the CIA money.