<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4916.2300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Peter K writes:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Rashid seems to be advocating more US involvement or at least money. <BR>Is this the consenus among anti-imperialists? Or is all this just evidence <BR>that the people of Afghanistan would have been better off under the <BR>Taliban and Pakistan, their sponsor? Also, aren't the Germans taking <BR>over peacekeeping? </FONT><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--The issue at hand should be given what we know about the prosecutors of this 'war on terror', can we expect that their proclaimed goals will be even remotely met? We can wish the US would become more involved in Afghani development, though the parameters of global economic liberalisation tend to entirely militate against that likelihood.  Asking why that is so, not wishing that US military involvement in 2002 will bring economic development or democracy to poor countries (anymore than it could or intended to bring an end to drug running in Panama say), is where the anti-imperialist critics are on the money. </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>