Going to be having a conversation about the private sector in afghanistan. Hosted y posted this witht have done the partnership of the Senior Advisor here. Thank you, tony. Will have a very interesting and constructive conversation today. When i think about people who are qualified for their jobs, and two or the right people at the right time, i cant think of a better person than my friend greg from the afghanistan pakistan office. He has served in the toughest places in the world for the United States. Patriot, a really qualified individual. Thank god he agreed to do public service. Up. , come on [applause] it is very nice to see many of my old friends here, particularly my friend from cairo. He has done a lot of things that need to be done in afghanistan. Great to see all of you. I look forward to meeting all of those i have not met. I would like to see say a few words about the strategy, and a few points on how that relates role in afghanistan and pakistan, and talk about the specif
Without the partnership of the Partnership Ambassador tony win the senior advisers csis and a friend and thank you very much tony for everything. I think we will have a very interesting and constructive conversation today and when i think about people who are qualified for their jobs and the right people at the right time i cant think of a better person than my friend from the afghanistanpakistan office at usaid. He summoned that have served in pakistan and afghanistan and served in some of the toughest places in the world. Craig is a friend, greg is a patriot and a qualified individual. Thank god he has raised his hand and agree to public service. Thank you very much. Come on up here. Give them a round of applause. [applause] its very nice to see many of my old friends here in the audience particularly i found from cairo was done a lot of the things that need to be done or might be done in afghanistan. Its great to see all of you and i look forward to meeting those of you that i have
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Lets get started. Im dan runde. I hold the chair here at csis. Were going to have a conversation about the private sector in afghanistan. We have been doing a series of events on afghanistan over the last year. We recently hosted Abdullah Abdullah about two weeks ago. We couldnt have done this without the partnership of ambassador tony weng, the Senior Adviser here. Thank you for everything. I think were going to have an interesting and constructive conversation today. When i think about people who are qualified for their jobs or the right people at the right time, i cant think of a better person than my friend greg uygur. Fz who served both in pakistan and afghanistan has served some of the toughest places in the world for the United States of america. Greg is a friend. Greg is a patriot. Greg is a really qualified individual. Thank god that greg uygur has raised his hand and agreed to do Public Service again. Thank you very much. Come on up here. Give him a round of applause. [ appla
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. So, i think to answer that question, its important that you understand the nature of the corruption thats in afghanistan. So corruption is like a disease and there are different kinds of disease, all right . One of the problems with using the term corruption is its this big banner that can mean anything from sort of low level shakedowns at check points all the way to a cleptocratic form of government. Low level is illegal and not tolerated by the system is actually very easy to deal with. Corruption by sort of individuals that when the larger context of the system is corruption is not tolerable, you can eventually put enough pressure on those individuals and deal with the problem. When its in a sector like the ministry, thats an even more aggressive form of the disease. It could be treatable if you isolate it. If youre a crelecleptocracy. The difference between patronage is that money flows from the top down and loyalty goes up. And in a cleptopracy, goes