The latest American plan in Afghanistan—arming villagers against the Taliban—has in recent days created a fierce international debate, with some observers warning that the U.S. is creating even more warlords in a country already crawling with militias and risking a reprise of the civil war that devastated the country during the 1990s. And guns handed out to Afghans, may in time be turned against American troops, they caution.
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