With Wikileaks' release last week of 92,000 pages of classified documents about the war in Afghanistan, it seems everyone, naturally, is concentrating on the details and progress of the hot war being fought between Afghan soldiers, coalition forces and the Taliban.
But there is another war being fought - this one mostly out of the limelight of press headlines and caches of leaked documents. It is a battle for the economic soul of the nation, one that will determine whether Afghanistan becomes a thriving capitalist economy or remains one based on tribal rivalries in a zero-sum game.
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