Great News! Bailout in the Works for Afghan Bank

[andymays]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/world/asia/05kabul.html

Excerpt:

KABUL, Afghanistan — In a bid to fend off the threat of a nationwide financial crisis, the Afghan and United States governments hammered together a deal to bail out Afghanistan’s largest bank on Saturday after lines of frantic depositors mobbed the bank for a third day.

[lamboguy]

i just blew up in the 6th race at the spa, can you please bail me out?

[boxcar]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/world/asia/05kabul.html

Excerpt:

KABUL, Afghanistan — In a bid to fend off the threat of a nationwide financial crisis, the Afghan and United States governments hammered together a deal to bail out Afghanistan’s largest bank on Saturday after lines of frantic depositors mobbed the bank for a third day.

Huh? A bank in a 7th world backward country is too big to fail? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Boxcar

[Tom]

Maybe they finance the poppy futures.

This government is pathetic.


To be Afghanistan is to be a failure!

[lamboguy]

the rooskies dixie-dooed out of that hell hole years ago, and now the genius guys running this country stuck us in there for no good reason to pick up the slack that the kgb couldn't scratch. now we bail out the banks in kaboool

[Mike at A+]

Maybe if we send Barney Frank and Chris Dodd there, we can see to it that they get the same wonderful system they that we got from them.

[Greyfox]

From Karzai down Afghanistan is corrupt. He is milking the U.S. for all he can get. The place is a "money pit." Trying to "nation build" there among those who only want separate tribal thiefdoms is a waste of lives, time and money.

[Robert Goren]

Nation building is always a money pit.

[PhantomOnTour]

A term of the times and a futile(feudal!? :) ) endeavor. You can't 'build' someone else's nation.

[skate]

Maybe if we send Barney Frank and Chris Dodd there, we can see to it that they get the same wonderful system they that we got from them.

I'll buy into that, as long as we can have Pelousy and Schumer as pilots.

Hiccups can serve "Cocktails" and have zilly as towel lady.:)