In Kabul's 'Obama Market,' U.S. military rations on sale

[unhappycamper]

American goods for sale on Kabul shelves. To see more: click for a gallery of photographs.



In Kabul's 'Obama Market,' U.S. military rations on sale
By Jay Price | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009

KABUL, Afghanistan — First came the Brezhnev Market. Then the Bush Market.

Now Afghans are beginning to call their notorious bazaar full of chow and supplies bought or stolen from the vast U.S. military bases by the name of the current American president, a modest counterweight to his Nobel Peace Prize.

"It is Obama Market now," pronounced Haji Tor, a rotund shopkeeper who acts as kind of an unofficial chamber of commerce president for the market in the Afghan capital. "Bush is finished."

Well, maybe not quite yet. Most of the shopkeepers and customers still call it the Bush Market, but several said that the new name is gradually gaining traction.

The small market, tucked behind a commercial building in the northwest side of the city, is a U.S. taxpayer's nightmare.


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[Liberal In Texas]

1. I see Milo Minderbinder is alive and well and still in the military. n/t

[Obamanaut]

2. Yet another reason to bring all the troops home, from all the bases

outside the US, and sell whatever is left at a going-out-of-business sale.

Review all foreign aid. If any of the countries formerly on the dole want anything, let them buy the products at full market value.

It is time for the US to stop being the police, grocer, and money supply for the world.