Comments for harry rud http://harryrud.wordpress.com Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:58:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Night letter clip art and other snippets by votar chicas http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/night-letter-clip-art-and-other-snippets/#comment-987 votar chicas Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:58:56 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=586#comment-987 WoW! Thank you very much for that enlightening article WoW! Thank you very much for that enlightening article

]]> Comment on Afghan election roundup by Joel Hafvenstein http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/election-farce/#comment-986 Joel Hafvenstein Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:25:53 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=623#comment-986 Love the roundup -- and yeah, "befuddlingly depressing" describes the situation well. The Karzai government was already broadly terrible at governing; the gratuitous clumsiness of the electoral fraud just highlights its general lack of competence. Now it's thrown a little more legitimacy out the window and put itself deeper in hock to warlords and traffickers. In this context, Obama's mooted 40,000 extra troops for Counter-Insurgency are going to be about as constructive as sending 40,000 more bullets to an army with no guns. Love the roundup — and yeah, “befuddlingly depressing” describes the situation well.

The Karzai government was already broadly terrible at governing; the gratuitous clumsiness of the electoral fraud just highlights its general lack of competence. Now it’s thrown a little more legitimacy out the window and put itself deeper in hock to warlords and traffickers.

In this context, Obama’s mooted 40,000 extra troops for Counter-Insurgency are going to be about as constructive as sending 40,000 more bullets to an army with no guns.

]]> Comment on Afghan election roundup by Captain Cat http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/election-farce/#comment-985 Captain Cat Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:35:54 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=623#comment-985 I saw Kai at the airport in Dubai two days ago on my way home to England. He looked worn out and depressed, but he'll get over it after a week at home and then maybe he'll be offered some comfortable job in Brussels or New York and he can put all of this behind him. The Afghans are left with Karzai and the hareem of whores that make up his government. I wish the people had the resources and understanding to demand better and more accountable leadership, and I wish we hadn't cheated them out of it. I saw Kai at the airport in Dubai two days ago on my way home to England. He looked worn out and depressed, but he’ll get over it after a week at home and then maybe he’ll be offered some comfortable job in Brussels or New York and he can put all of this behind him. The Afghans are left with Karzai and the hareem of whores that make up his government. I wish the people had the resources and understanding to demand better and more accountable leadership, and I wish we hadn’t cheated them out of it.

]]> Comment on Afghan election roundup by Zartosht Ariana http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/election-farce/#comment-984 Zartosht Ariana Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:29:25 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=623#comment-984 Afghanistans's foundation has eroded so much that it's very shaky now.A lot of votes for Karzai were found to be fraudulent and so he should have been held personally responsible and prosecuted for high crimes as national elections are very serious matter.This way Afghans would have been taught a serious lesson in law and order and new elections with new candidates should then have been carried out.The Afghans need to be taught that crime does not pay;it is unbelievable the US/NATO/UN allowed this farce to succeed.I am shaking my head! what a SHAME,DAMN SHAME!!!! Afghanistans’s foundation has eroded so much that it’s very shaky now.A lot of votes for Karzai were found to be fraudulent and so he should have been held personally responsible and prosecuted for high crimes as national elections are very serious matter.This way Afghans would have been taught a serious lesson in law and order and new elections with new candidates should then have been carried out.The Afghans need to be taught that crime does not pay;it is unbelievable the US/NATO/UN allowed this farce to succeed.I am shaking my head! what a SHAME,DAMN SHAME!!!!

]]> Comment on Olympic bronze for Afghanistan by hamid http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/olympic-bronze-for-afghanistan/#comment-982 hamid Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:04:00 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-982 my best salam for Rohullah. hope your doing well in your life. you did a very good job for your country not just your country for our country. i am washing to get a medal for afghanistan to. but i am not sure if i am going to gen my goal or no. you could help me to gen my goal plz give me an email in this email addres shikibaazizi@yahoo.com tnx a lot. my best salam for Rohullah. hope your doing well in your life. you did a very good job for your country not just your country for our country. i am washing to get a medal for afghanistan to. but i am not sure if i am going to gen my goal or no. you could help me to gen my goal plz give me an email in this email addres shikibaazizi@yahoo.com tnx a lot.

]]> Comment on Domestic clashes by Niklas Ahlgren http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/domestic-clashes/#comment-980 Niklas Ahlgren Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:00:46 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=613#comment-980 Hi! I hope you’ll excuse a comment on a more general matter than this specific post.. I find your blog very interesting, and well written. I would be very grateful if you could contact me on the mail address below. Thanks and regards, Niklas http://theworldlog.org theworldlog.org@gmail.com Hi!

I hope you’ll excuse a comment on a more general matter than this specific post..

I find your blog very interesting, and well written. I would be very grateful if you could contact me on the mail address below.

Thanks and regards,
Niklas
http://theworldlog.org
theworldlog.org@gmail.com

]]> Comment on Walking out of here by lin http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/walking-out-of-here/#comment-979 lin Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:01:55 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=462#comment-979 Amazing! Both the joy of walking, exploring and enjoying the whole of it, plus the great photos! Amazing! Both the joy of walking, exploring and enjoying the whole of it, plus the great photos!

]]> Comment on Micro-finance, micro-loans and Kiva by Ruby @ Getting Cash Fast http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/micro-finance-micro-loans-and-kiva/#comment-975 Ruby @ Getting Cash Fast Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:35:14 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=272#comment-975 Kiva does a great thing, as long as they're allowed to do it! Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. Keep up the great work! Kiva does a great thing, as long as they’re allowed to do it!

Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. Keep up the great work!

]]> Comment on Domestic clashes by transitionland http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/domestic-clashes/#comment-974 transitionland Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:29:27 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=613#comment-974 Woops, HTML error there. only that first sentence was supposed to be italicized, because I was quoting you. Woops, HTML error there. only that first sentence was supposed to be italicized, because I was quoting you.

]]> Comment on Domestic clashes by transitionland http://harryrud.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/domestic-clashes/#comment-973 transitionland Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:28:39 +0000 http://harryrud.wordpress.com/?p=613#comment-973 <i>I just need to think of a way of explaining why without appearing like a callous, war-mongering bastard.<i> Ugh. This. I'm not even in Afghanistan, but, working "on" it from afar, my views pretty much mirror yours. And I've lost friends over them, quite a few friends at this point. To people I marched with against the Iraq War, I'm now a warmongering, blood-drinking, militarist whorebag. With the exception of abortion (I'm pro-choice) no other policy debate in my life has been so emotionally fraught. I just need to think of a way of explaining why without appearing like a callous, war-mongering bastard.

Ugh. This. I’m not even in Afghanistan, but, working “on” it from afar, my views pretty much mirror yours. And I’ve lost friends over them, quite a few friends at this point. To people I marched with against the Iraq War, I’m now a warmongering, blood-drinking, militarist whorebag. With the exception of abortion (I’m pro-choice) no other policy debate in my life has been so emotionally fraught.

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