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Afghanistan: The 51st American State?
Friday, February 1, 2002
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Bringing the dollar now to Afghanistan would automatically make the country America's responsibility.



There is no doubt that the "afghani" -- the long-suffering Afghan currency -- will have to go.



* New world conflict management
* Failed Argentine strategy
* The 51st state?

News reports indicate that IMF officials advising Afghanistan want to delay the introduction of the new local currency. Could it be that -- by "dollarizing" Afghanistan -- the International Monetary Fund is secretly scheming to make that country a protectorate of the United States?

There is no doubt that the "afghani" -- the long-suffering Afghan currency -- will have to go. At present, it is next to worthless. In order to buy one U.S. dollar, you need to put up nearly 5,000 afghani. An even bigger problem is that the currency has been counterfeited so often that most Afghani merchants no longer bother to accept it.

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"Dollarization," of course, is when a country uses money that was printed and minted in the United States as its own currency.

The afghani's weakness is why the IMF is advising Afghanistan to replace it with the dollar. The IMF sees it as a "temporary" measure that may last up to two years. But it may be more than merely an economic prescription. In fact, it may be an insidious geopolitical plot on the part of the IMF.

You see, according to international folklore, the Fund is dominated by Europeans -- who sincerely dislike what has emerged as the new model of international conflict management.
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