Source: The daily Beast:
For over a decade the CIA has been delivering money to the offices of Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, in the shadiest ways possible: suitcases, backpacks, and plastic bags full of cash. The New York Times reports that tens of millions of dollars have gone to Karzai’s office. And it doesn’t seem like the CIA is getting what it wants for its money: much of it is used to pay off warlords and politicians, many with ties to the drug trade, fueling the corruption U.S. diplomats have been trying to fight. “The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan,” an American official told the Times, “was the United States.”
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same in Iraq. The Americans are good teachers of corruption (ok, and the Afghans and Iraqis good students)…
Also in Pakistan, before the CIA intervention during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan corruption was nearly unknown. (I worked there from 1965 to 1969 and during our work (nearly) we did not come into contact with corruption.
You forgot to include Pakistan in your opening remarks. When we know tactics of our teacher why our leaders then get trapped. What an unfortunate scenario.