Reassessing the Afghanistan Crisis

Time to be honest about Afghanistan



By Rory Stewart, Financial Times, September 21, 2012









More than 50 US and British soldiers have been killed by their Afghan partners this year. The attacks have been described as Taliban infiltration of the police, which could be addressed by better vetting. But the very words �Taliban�, �police�, and �vetting� are misleading.

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