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Afghanistan Congressional Forum Highlights
Here is a shot at summarizing what went down at the Afghanistan forum yesterday. I am relying on hastily written notes and residual and highly selective memory, and therefore have no claims to...
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Unreconstructed
Bamiyan continues to languish in its Stone Age state more than five years after the fall of the Taliban and the early promises of paving the roads leading to this keystone province, NPR reports. Why?...
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Unreconstructed-ii
This map leaves little room for doubt as to the “insurgency premium” reaped by the trouble(d) spots of the country. (Map taken from a guest post by Ambassador Thomas Schweich, Deputy Assistant...
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This is Farshid
When I sat to write this last night, just home from a quick trip to the bazaar, I was not planning to put it on Safrang. Its form and content are out of step with Safrang –self-serious, presumptuous...
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“Is Afghanistan A Narco-State?”
So asks Thomas Schweich, for years the lead US official on counter-narcotics in Afghanistan, and answers not so favorably for either the US or the Afghan governments. As close to the horse’s mouth as...
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