Afstan: Two negatives and a positive
1) Christian Science Monitor:
Afghanistan's insurgency spreading north2) Daily Telegraph
Militant attacks are increasing outside the Taliban's southern stronghold, such as Sunday's on President Hamid Karzai.
Nato's Afghan mission in trouble, says Brown3) Wall St. Journal (opinion piece)
We're Not Losing Afghanistan
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 10:29 a.m.
1 Comments:
another one . . .
The headline
"Hamburger Hill: frontline base in a sea of poppies British soldiers dare not clear
War on drugs loses out to anti-Taliban fight for hearts and minds in Helmand province"
but buried deep in the story . . .
"There is some good news. A bitterly cold winter will lower crop yields significantly. The number of drug-free provinces, which rose from six to 13 in 2007, is expected to rise again, some say to as many as 21 of Afghanistan's 28 provinces. The most dramatic triumph occurred in south-eastern Nangarhar, last year's No 2 poppy-growing province. This year the Nangarhar crop has collapsed to virtually nothing thanks to a muscular campaign led by the strongman governor, Gul Agha Sherzai."
http://tinyurl.com/5zdpzy
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