EU Ignores Atrocities Because of Afghanistan
Craig Murray, Former UK Amb. to Uzbekistan | January 24, 2011
EU Commission President Barroso meets with Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov today. ++ Despite massacres and oppression carried out under the dictator's name, the meeting is going ahead. ++ Moreover, the EU refuses to enact sanctions on the regime. ++ "So why is the EU less moral than Tesco or Walmart?" ++ The answer is Afghanistan, as 20% of supplies to NATO forces now transit through Uzbekistan. ++ It is a prime example of the way our Afghan policy is not just failing in Afghanistan, but poisoning an entire nexus of foreign policy issues.
