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Jon Stewart on Wikileaks and Afghanistan
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 9:01am | posted by Jason Pye
“What the f**k?! We give [Pakistan] billions of dollars of aid. Then Pakistan is funnelling that money to the Taliban. One of the chief financial contributors to our enemy is us? We have ostensibly put a hit out on ourselves. This is insanity.” - Jon Stewart
On Tuesday evening, Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, weighed in on the Wikileaks release of more than 90,000 documents pertaining to the occupation of Afghanistan and media coverage of the leak, which largely was dismissive of what was in documents.
And as President Barack Obama and Democrats secured $59 billion in funding on Tuesday, mostly going for our continued occupation of Afghanistan (the Graveyard of Empires), you have to wonder where the anti-war left is.
Here is the video:
I haven’t been through the documents, but would there also be a significant chance that US dollars may have trickled down to Pakistani security responsible for the mayhem in Mumbai or similar attacks? There seem to be allusions in that direction: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/0728/WikiLeaks-fa… This is the big fallacy of foreign aid - it can end up subsidizing conflicts instead of resolving them.
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