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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (111043)	8/12/2003 12:33:39 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

Troops too few for security outside Kabul: General: Canada does not have the troops in Afghanistan to expand its peace-support role outside the capital, the top Canadian soldier in the country said today as NATO took command of the 5,000-member international security force in Kabul... "...if ISAF and NATO weren't here, then I submit to you the situation in Kabul would deteriorate so quickly that the Afghan transitional authority's survivability would be very much in doubt. So I guess in that sense we're contributing to the keeping him and his government alive." thestar.com My comment: This situation makes it clear, that what Karzai commands, doesn't add up to the minimum necessary to be called a government. His authority is in one city, and only that much because of foreign soldiers (who answer to foreign governments, not Karzai). Nation-building is a non-starter in Afghanistan, and time is not improving things.