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27 Sep 2008 12:03 pm
Our Blind Spot In Afghanistan?
Tom Johnson and M. Chris Mason have a very sharp article on Afghanistan in the current Atlantic. Money quote:
Politically and strategically, the most important level of governance in Afghanistan is neither national nor regional nor provincial. Afghan identity is rooted in the woleswali: the districts within each province that are typically home to a single clan or tribe. Historically, unrest has always bubbled up from this stratum-whether against Alexander, the Victorian British, or the Soviet Union. Yet the woleswali are last, not first, in U.S. military and political strategy.
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