The day after I read the impassioned, clear and very rational testimony from David Miliband and Graeme Smith at the US Senate about the necessity of allowing Afghanistan’s economy to restart, not least by releasing its central bank funds with appropriate conditionalities, I saw the news that the White House had decided to release its central bank funds, reserving half for humanitarian use and the other half for the families of 9/11 victims.
Such obscenity. I had not thought it possible to be more disguested than with the US withdrawal and its nature, but it turns out…