What to make of Afghanistan today? Certainly newspaper-headline readers tend to have a negative view. Beyond the fact that this is now our nation's longest war, and also a rather deadly one with several hundred GIs per year losing their lives in battle, progress seems minimal. The latest bad news is a string of high-profile assassinations in the country by a combination of Taliban sympathizers, disgruntled individuals and Afghan soldiers gone berserk. Before that there was the attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. Before that the scandal with President Karzai trying to muscle out sixty-two members of parliament over purported electoral irregularities that in fact he was not supposed to adjudicate himself.
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