Afghans go to the polls on August 20th to elect a president; current president Hamid Karzai is running for reelection. The country is plagued with violence. A roadside bomb killed 21 people this morning, and Kabul recently suffered its first rocket attacks at the hands of the Taliban in decades. Is Hamid Karzai the man for the job? Elizabeth Rubin, contributing writer for The New York Times magazine, just spent three days with the Afghani leader. She joins The Takeaway with a portrait of the man struggling to retain respect and power in the embattled nation. Elizabeth Rubin's article will appear in this week's New York Times magazine
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I'm wondering why World Bank won't let Afghanistan build the ~$1B refinery that would **give them full energy independence for the next 100 years!**
Certainly the $2.89B award payment that China MCC gave to the Karzai regime for the Aynak copper deposit is more
than enough to engage refinery studies and construction! Where did $2.89B go?
Hey, when Karzai was just asked the other day about his "I Have a Dream" for Afghanistan, he did not mention one
word about the 100-years-of-energy-
freedom for Afghans oil & gas deposits.
I'm spreading the word those oil & gas resources can be easily converted into **100 years of energy independence**
for Afghans simply by building a ~$1B oil refinery.
Otherwise, all Afghans will have left to trade with Pakistan for foreign
imported gasoline (Pakistan itself doesn't have a refinery)
is **fruit, firewood and child-women orphans!**
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