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[And So It Goes] The tragedy in Kabul is that by sucking so much of the stuff of global nation-building away from Afghanistan into the Iraqi vortex - where it is being squandered - the US-led coalition has created just the veneer of a democracy that barely masks so much of what is rotten in Afghanistan. Article
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The Agonist | thoughtful, global, timely: Many military families rely on donated goods AFGHANISTAN: Rosy picture of Afghanistan hides grim truth - Perhaps it was Kabul's famously thin air. But while he was in the capital a few weeks ago, Britain's Defence Secretary, Des Browne, told the BBC back home how "the people of Afghanistan lost 2 million people securing their freedom", before he (via Cosmos)
[Jcgi.pathfinder.com] TIME.com: The Vortex of Evil -- Apr. 30, 1973 -- Page 1: In The Orphan, at off-Broadway's Public Theater, Viet Nam is not actively present except as Rabe attempts to relate it to the problem of evil throughout human existence. Often as silly and awkward as it is ambitious, the play nonetheless bears the mark of a dramatist who dares and cares.
[Thomaspmbarnett.com] Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: July 2004 Archives: We are not going to generate a new grand strategy from the IC up (if you want to see how bad such strategies can be, read Anonymous or Richard Clarke), and it sure as hell won't be centered on winning the hearts and minds of would-be terroristsmuch less killing them in increasingly clever ways. This is symptom-treating at its worst, but we reach for it becausefranklyits the easiest approach for Congress to take: write a bill forcing a certain amount of organizational change and then designate some counter-terrorist center (or better yet, designate a whole slew of them and spread them around numerous congressional districts) and be done with it.
[Windsofchange.net] Winds of Change.NET: OxDem Global Democracy Brief: 2004-03-12: The process collapsed in the aftermath of the leak of a draft of the proposal two weeks ago to the London-based Arabic newspaper Al Hayat, which precipitated the Saudi and Egyptian diplomatic campaign to oppose it. Drafted by the administration with minimal involvement from the State Department, the Initiative was to draw on the models of the Helsinki Accords and the Marshall Plan to create and fund institutions to promote democracy in the region and hasten reforms in governance, education, the economy, technology, development and the role of women.
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