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First Lady Writes Home on Afghanistan

Posted Jun 12, 08 1:34 PM CDT in Politics,  World 

(Newser) – Laura Bush, attending an international fundraising conference for Afghanistan after visiting the war-torn country, documents the distance it's traveled in recovery and the challenges ahead in a Wall Street Journal column. Hailing “amazing progress,” the first lady writes of lowered infant mortality and increased access to health care and education. But, she warns, there's still “danger lurking in the Afghan hills.”

"Americans learned on a clear September morning that misery and oppression half a world away can manifest themselves on the next block," Bush writes in arguing the importance of keeping al-Qaeda out of Kabul. "That lesson has been retaught in the years since, in cities from Jakarta to London to Madrid."

Source Wall Street Journal

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U.S. first lady Laura Bush, left, delivers her speech, next to Afghan Foreign minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta, center, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right,.   (AP Photo/ Francois Mori, Pool)
U.S. first lady Laura Bush adjusts her earphones at the opening of the Afghanistan donors conference.   (AP Photo/ Francois Mori, Pool)
U. S. first lady Laura Bush, center, poses with members of the New Zealand military after a welcoming ceremony at the military compound in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.   (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
U. S. first lady Laura Bush, left, and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, right, shake hands.   (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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