RAMSHACKLE US-BACKED AFGHAN GOVERNMENT ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE

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The US war in Afghanistan (cost $2.4 trillion) continues to go badly. After revelations that the Taliban are actually winning on the ground and news that Trump is going to "win hearts and minds" by ordering more unrestricted bombing, comes the news that the US-backed government is basically falling apart.

From Arab News:

"An Afghan faction which is a key partner of President Ashraf Ghani�s government has threatened his plan to fire a leading member of the party who has been a long-serving governor for northern Balkh province.

The development adds further to the already deepening political tension in the US-backed government while Taliban insurgents and Daesh affiliates make gains on the battlefield and with growing calls for convocation of a grand traditional assembly which may decide on the formation of an interim government and on the fate of US forces in Afghanistan."

The tiff involves the Jamiat-e-Islami party, which, as the name suggests, may not be as unsympathetic to the Taliban as one would expect from a US ally, and Afghani President Ashraf Ghani. Ghani is attempting to remove, Atta Mohammad Noor, the  governor of Balkh province, who is a member of Jamiat-e-Islami.

Ghani with his badge of office.

Ghani is an independent, non-party firgurehead, whose urbane manners and track record of working for the World Bank and the UN makes him an ideal tool for the globalists, but his power base in Afghanistan is extremely weak and narrow. 

In recent months he has been trying to build up his power base through crude nepostism and tribal politics, sparking opposition from others in the governing coalition, like the Jamiat-e-Islami party.

"Ghani has gradually reduced the role of Jamiat figures in recent months and in summer blocked the arrival of his first vice president General Abdul Rashid Dostum, another factional leader, to Balkh to announce the formation of an opposition alliance with Atta and another senior member of Ghani�s government.

Dostum lives in exile in Turkey for allegedly ordering the detention and sexual abuse of a political rival...

Dostum, Atta and many of those who had gathered in Kandahar accuse Ghani of power monopoly and nepotism. Ghani, who is under US and Western donors� pressure for bringing reforms in his government, denies the allegations."

Don't ask me, but why would anyone be thinking of investing another cent in this shitshow, when this is what 2.4 trillion dollars got you?