by Rick Rozoff
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
April 8, 2014
Press TV
April 7, 2014
Press TV has interviewed Stop NATO International Network’s Rick Rozoff to discuss the recent presidential election in Afghanistan.
What follows is a rough transcript of the interview.
Press TV: Given the situation that Afghanistan has, is it a success simply that they can even hold a presidential election there?
Rozoff: That’s I think a realistic interpretation. It’s definitely a historic watershed in that, of course, this marks the smooth transition from the administration of Hamid Karzai, who has been head of Afghanistan in the entire post-Taliban, post-invasion period, to either Dr. [Abdullah] Abdullah or Dr. [Ashraf] Ghani [Ahmadzai]. It’s important I suppose in its own right, but as some of the lead-in into the story indicated, were still talking about a nation that has undergone 35 years of armed conflict, that is in tatters and that really needs international assistance of a civilian and an economic nature, rather than a military nature. Continue reading →