The Washington Post Creates Its Own Facts to Support Afghan Nation-Building

The Washington Post is creating its own facts in order to support its argument for US nation-building in Afghanistan. In its lead editorial on Saturday, the Post asserted that the United States is capable of building a strong government in Afghanistan at the national and local levels. The Post claimed that Afghanistan had had a "working national government through most of the 1970s and 1980s." This is simply not so.read more Full Story »

Posted by Patricia Blochowiak - via NewsRack (Afghanistan)
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Posted by: Posted by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct 22, 2009 - 12:31 PM PDT
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Edited by: Patricia Blochowiak - Oct 22, 2009 - 3:31 PM PDT

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by Randy Morrow - Oct. 23, 2009

A brief history of Afghanistan's recent past and it's attempts at "national" governance.

This history clearly suggests that nation-building and institution-building is a fool’s errand in Afghanistan, where political and economic backwardness and ... More »

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