Bill Moyers with Sarah Chayes

Bill Moyers had an interesting program last week, interviewing Sarah Chayes. She was a correspondent with NPR, until she left and stayed in Afghanistan to help rebuild the country. Here is what she had to say.

“We’re paying a billion dollars a year to Pakistan, which is orchestrating the Taliban insurgency. So it’s actually U.S. taxpayer money that is paying for the insurgents, who are then killing – at the moment – Canadian troops... It’s been very clear to me, watching since 2002, that Pakistan has been buying us off by a well-timed delivery of an al-Qaeda operative, which has then caused us to look the other way about the Taliban... so this is why 99 % of the people in Kandahar believe that we are allied with the Taliban. Everybody thinks that America is allied with the Taliban.”
More about her here.