August 2009
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Finally read Elizabeth Rubin’s profile on Hamid Karzai from the weekend’s New York Times that @strickvl, @joshuafoust and @AfPakChannel all recommended. I thought the second par really nailed the current state of politics in Afghanistan:
At my table, an elderly Helmandi engineer described how awful things were in his region — families killed in coalition airstrikes, villages overrun...
