New US military strategy in Afghanistan "tolerates SOME corruption"

[Bluebear]

:wtf:

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U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan are developing a strategy that would tolerate some corruption in the country but target the most corrosive abuses by more tightly regulating U.S. contracting procedures, according to senior defense officials.

American officials here have not spoken publicly about countenancing potentially corrupt local power brokers. Such a stance would run somewhat against the grain of a counterinsurgency doctrine that preaches the importance of building competent governance.

But military officials have concluded that the Taliban insurgency is the most pressing threat to stability in Afghanistan and that a sweeping effort to drive out corruption would create chaos and a governance vacuum that the Taliban could exploit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305545.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

[EFerrari]

1. That's the narrative but unless you want a bedtime story

it's bs. It's only corruption when the Pentagon isn't organizing it.