{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"U.S. Drifting Towards Repression as its Afghan Strategy","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article36937.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article36937.html'\u003EU.S. Drifting Towards Repression as its Afghan Strategy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEthical U.S. officials in Afghanistan are losing their behind-the-scenes battles for the soul of Afghanistan.  Those Americans who support a free and honest central government are being marginalized by those who support a return to power of the feudal warlords.  The allure of the corrupt warlords is based on the fantasy that repression will provide a sufficient amount of temporary security so as to permit the United States to abandon Afghanistan with honor.  As with the Shah of Iran in 1979, (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}