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Karzai's Government Too Rotten to Back

Sending more troops won't work if they're protecting a tainted government

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 14, 2009 1:19 AM CDT

(Newser) – No counterinsurgency campaign can succeed without a good government to work with, and Hamid Karzai's operation is nowhere near good enough, writes Thomas L. Friedman. Karzai's government is thoroughly corrupt and his election victory deeply tainted, Friedman notes in the New York Times. Much of...   Read full story »

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