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Blogging for effect--from his blog:

Afghanistan: The Americans arrive in the south, and we’re not the Americans

I have been meaning to write about a striking Washington Post article from the weekend about what the new American deployment in the south of Afghanistan entails, but it’s a weirdly busy day around here so I’ll just point you to Mark From Ottawa at the indispensable Torch blog, because he annotates the Post story usefully. Money quote:

People at the regional command now joke that the three provinces should be renamed Canadahar, Helmandshire and Uruzdam [emphasis added].

“It’s a totally dysfunctional way of fighting a war [emphasis added],” said a U.S. officer in the south. “You’ve got each of these guys doing their own thing in their provinces with very little coordination.”..

Mr Wells makes his own contributions to the discussion--and has a pretty good idea of what's going on.