| British, US and local aid workers have described a number of problems including bribery, profiteering, poor planning and incompetence. The overall effect has been to cripple the development effort structured under the Bush administration's insistence on an unregulated and profit-driven reconstruction. The "original plan was to get in, prop up Karzai, kill al-Qaida, privatise government-owned enterprises and get out." |
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