Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 21, 2010
October 20, 2010
October 22, 2010
Transcript:
Jeff: Overkill's people are discreet and professional, Mr. President - not like other security contractors. I urge you to lift the ban for him, Excellency - as a personal favor to me, Sorkh Razil, the Red Rascal of Afghanistan! Hamid Karzai: This I cannot do, my friend. Many already consider me erratic. I must stand fast! Ask for anything else - a dancing boy, perhaps? Jeff: This is not our way. What else you got?
And one of the hallmarks of the Taliban (which didn’t endear them to the Off-The-Shelf Enterprise folks) was their crackdown on the opium trade.
They had almost wiped it out by the time BushCheneyCo intervened, and now it’s restored and more.
So Karzai is in that position of negotiating among the power blocs, as Richard notes. Multi-mucho-bux being floated with very little benefit to the purported goals…