Skeptical administration keeping Karzai at arm’s length
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Wednesday, May 6, 2009 | The Washington Post
“…The most significant U.S. act that weakened Karzai early on, according to his allies and diplomats, was the decision to funnel almost all of the U.S. reconstruction assistance to for-profit development contractors, nongovernmental organizations and the United Nations — not through the Afghan government, which U.S. officials regarded as insufficiently capable of administering the aid. The result was that Karzai’s government was starved of resources to pay its workers or provide services….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050504048_pf.html
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