Saturday, June 14, 2014

This is now a regular feature in the US media: Afghans pleading: please let the occupation last forever

"Sayed Sabir Rasooly, 27, president of a Kabul construction and logistics company, said the value of his business grew from a few thousand dollars to $3 million in 2012. He bought a new house and traveled abroad.

But his last coalition contract — supplying cases of Red Bull to a military and diplomatic compound near Kabul — expired last month. Now he’s trying to immigrate to the United States.

“We have lost everything,” Rasooly said. “I talk to a lot of Afghan businessmen, and the situation is not good.”"