Sylvia's Journal

It seems ages ago that I got up this morning. More than 12 hours later I arrived home to see my honey sitting on the terrace, with glasses of a certain type ready for the cocktail hour. That was a nice reception for a tired worker.

I tried to fall back into my routine but I don’t have the email under control and the computer is still not entirely recovered and there is so much to do, and so many dilemmas that require much thinking.

For example, how can we support prison health if the condition attached to US government funds is that they can’t benefit terrorists? But the terrorists should be in the prisons. Carrying the reasoning through the Afghans should let the terrorists go so we can help the Afghan government provide basic health services to prisoners.

Distinguishing between bad prisoners and the very bad (terrorists) is not that easy in this country. These are the kind of practical dilemmas that our lawmakers may not have thought about.

In the meantime, Karzai is playing noisily with firecrackers on TV and on the front pages of local newspapers. He uses every opportunity to accuse foreigners of messing with his country: they (we) are responsible for botched elections, for invading Afghanistan with ulterior motives (of course), mishandling the millions of dollars that are streaming into this country (I might add, streaming out as well) and ‘mistakenly’ killing civilians (note the quotation marks).

What if we just all walked away? I mean, all of us.