During class on Monday, we talked about politicians making unethical actions, including taking bribes and sex scandles. When scandles are first discovered, it does not take long for the whole state, country or even world to find out about them. The newest scandle in the news right now has to do with the Afghan minister of mines, Adel, accepting a $30 million bribe. If rumors about this are true, this action "would mark one of the msot brazen examples of corruption yet."
President Obama and his administration has been working with Afghanistan, trying to re-shape their government for the better. There have been many doubts about Afghan President Karzai being a reliable partner to the United States. This huge corruption movement only adds doubt to Karzai's control and ability to sucessfully run the country. Karzai is soon to start his next term in office and he is being watched and pressured internationally to fix his cabinet to get away from the constant scandles that are coming up throughout the Afghan government.
The scandle Afghan is facing right now is with a Chinese firm, known as MCC. A $2.9 million project was at stake and instead of giving other firms around the world a fair chance to fight for the project, it was given directly to the Chinese firm. Adel is in the step of denial for his actions, claiming that he did not receive any bribes and said, "all the time I'm following the law and the legislation for the benefit of the people." As talked about in class, denial is often used at first when the scandle is discovered. If the rumors come out to being true, Adel will have to work on an apologia speech to deliver to his people and everyone else around the world who was affected by his corruption.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34008177/ns/world_news-washington_post/
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I agree that the scandal is a led down to the Karzai adminitration, but it does not necessarilly taint Karzai's image in totalily. There is time for collective responsibility, and there is also time for individual responsibilty. For this case, Adel ia the one who committed the corrupt act. Therefore, he should be the one to be answerable. Karzai can only have a stake in the matter if Adel testifies that he was under the instructions of the Karzai administration to commit the corrupt act. But as things stand right now, Adel is guilty until proven innocent. Like you said, he is in denial, which means he knows that he committed a crime. Therefore, let Adel do the most noble thing an ethical politician should do, which is to own the crime, resign, and face the law, or defend himself.
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