I could not have put it better myself. And I wonder why no Labour Party candidates are available to attend the Lambeth Stop the War Coalition hustings next Monday night in Brixton and answer some of these questions.
From the Socialist Unity site http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=5580
Labour candidate for Newport, Paul Flynn MP, has ceased blogging until May 6th to comply with electoral law. However it is well worth reading the article he posted on 11th April, just before the dissolution of parliament.
by Paul Flynn MP
When you think you have heard everything a few new titbits of news appear from the hopelessness of Afghanistan.
Drug use among the Afghan Police show 68 per cent testing positive for cannabis. There is a similar percentage for the chaotic Army. Of course, Present Karzai has threatened that he might join forces with the Taliban. there is also an accusation that he is a drug addict.
The three foundations on which the new liberated Afghanistan is to be built after NATO’s sacrifices are Karzai, the Afghan Army and the Afghan Police. All are collapsing. We have an election here but no one is saying a word about a war without purpose.
The news about cannabis exposes another double cross. there was celebration that heroin production had dropped. Balkh province was an example. No heroin anymore because the farmers had switched to growing cannabis. Nothing to do with the intervention of our forces. All to do with market forces. Cannabis is in demand.
Afghanistan, already the world’s top opium supplier, is now the world’s biggest producer of cannabis, according to United Nations drug experts. UN experts estimate that 60,000 households are now growing cannabis.
A British-backed paramilitary unit is hunting down Afghan drug lords as part of a new strategy against the drug trade. Four helicopters have already been provided by Britain for airborne assault missions. The United Nation official added: “Corruption has been a major lubricant of the very prosperous drug industry… it’s throughout the system.”
Corruption has been the lubricant of all business and political life in Afghanistan for centuries. We are fighting it fiercely with our own democratic ethical corruption on an industrial scale. Pallets piled high with bubble-wrapped bundles of $100 bills are delivered daily distributed throughout the land to buy Afghans. Meanwhile Western fingers are wagged at Afghans and they lectured in the ethics of business virtue.
There will not be much about this in the papers tomorrow. No party deems it worthy of any attention.
After all, there is an election to be fought
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