drymouth: “The reality of Afghanistan” right-to-left: Al Qaeda (Pakistan); Gainers (Warlords); Losers (Afghans). via Afghanistan Magazine A visual way of depicting the winners and losers in Afghanistan. On the topic of the players in Afghanistan, The New York Times put out this handy list of President Hamid Karzai’s family, and who is doing what in Afghanistan. It’s all in the family eh? I also came across this op-ed today by one of the Afghan Foreign Minister’s senior advisers, Dr Davood Moradian, on the future of his country: Two End States in Afghanistan: Somalia of Asia or the Turkey of the East. (HT @saadmohseni) There’s an interesting comment from a Kabul University student at the end: “If the world exports us terrorists, we will send them back more committed and ruthless terrorists as well as with dozen kilograms of hashish and opium. But if the world helps us, we will export new generation of Zoroaster, Maulana Jalal Din Balkhi[Rumi], Avicenna, Jamal- din- Afghan, Padshah Khan and juicy Kandahari pomegranates and premium Herati saffron.” And … this has literally just dropped in my inbox, the Australian Defence Force’s fact sheets on Afghanistan, which provides some background on Australia and other countries’ involvement in the country ahead of a parliamentary debate this week. Update 18.10.10 Some bedtime reading from The New York Review of Books on Afghanistan. Both are by Christopher de Bellaigue - Should Afghanistan Exist? and The War with the Taliban.

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“The reality of Afghanistan” right-to-left: Al Qaeda (Pakistan); Gainers (Warlords); Losers (Afghans). 
via Afghanistan Magazine

A visual way of depicting the winners and losers in Afghanistan. On the topic of the players in Afghanistan, The New York Times put out this handy list of President Hamid Karzai’s family, and who is doing what in Afghanistan. It’s all in the family eh?

I also came across this op-ed today by one of the Afghan Foreign Minister’s senior advisers, Dr Davood Moradian, on the future of his country: Two End States in Afghanistan: Somalia of Asia or the Turkey of the East. (HT @saadmohseni) There’s an interesting comment from a Kabul University student at the end:

“If the world exports us terrorists, we will send them back more committed and ruthless terrorists as well as with dozen kilograms of hashish and opium. But if the world helps us, we will export new generation of Zoroaster, Maulana Jalal Din Balkhi[Rumi], Avicenna, Jamal- din- Afghan, Padshah Khan and juicy Kandahari pomegranates and premium Herati saffron.”

And … this has literally just dropped in my inbox, the Australian Defence Force’s fact sheets on Afghanistan, which provides some background on Australia and other countries’ involvement in the country ahead of a parliamentary debate this week.

Update 18.10.10

Some bedtime reading from The New York Review of Books on Afghanistan. Both are by Christopher de Bellaigue - Should Afghanistan Exist? and The War with the Taliban.

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