The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
There is a need to establish a truthful narrative, background and facts. Below is antithetical to all that. Fraud and Folly in Afghanistan The runoff round of the Afghan presidential election on June 14 was massively rigged, and the ensuing election audit was “unsatisfactory,” a result of Afghan government-orchestrated fraud on a scale exceeding two …
Told you so, we did. Ashraf Ghani Wins Afghanistan’s Presidential Election: Preliminary Results KABUL, July 7 (Reuters) – Afghanistan declared former World Bank official Ashraf Ghani the winner of last month’s presidential election run-off on Monday on preliminary results that threaten to split the country along ethnic lines. The Independent Election Commission said Ghani won …
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In the controversy and protesting stirred up by Abdullah, what is missing is a calm review of today’s political landscape in Afghanistan. Javid Ahmad a Program Coordinator for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Ahmad Hemmat, a D.C.-based researcher and advisor to the chairman of International Energy Partnerships makes some …
Finally an intelligent article on the election The South Asia Channel Ashraf Ghani’s Secret to Success Javid Ahmad & Ahmad Hemmat Foreign Policy 1 July 2014 Full Text Online Below the Fold (Emphasis Added)
On Defense Intelligence: Seven Strikes I consider defense intelligence today to be incoherent and ineffective. It has no grasp of the totality of the threat; it is largely worthless in providing SecDef with evidence-based decision support relevant to strategy, policy, acquisition, and operations; and it does not help DoD within the Cabinet when decision-support is …
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Ashraf Ghani claims Afghan presidential election victory Campaign team says Ghani has beaten rival by more than 1.3m votes, but Abdullah Abdullah withdraws because of alleged fraud Emma Graham-Harrison Guardian, 27 June 2014 Read full article. Phi Beta Iota: Ghani has his copy of all the tallies, most counter-signed by Abdullah’s polling place representative. This …
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Phi Beta Iota: RYP wrote this in part to react to Abdullah’s cavalier rejection of the Iraq scenario playing out today, for Afghanistan. His over-all point is that both candidates — Abdullah and Ghani — have pluses and minuses that voters and donors must consider BUT that there is only one clean candidate capable of …
