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To: greenspirit who wrote (19811)	12/14/2003 12:47:55 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793691

Running from Afghanistan too it appears... The Big boys from the U.N. That's a real joke. Is this the same U.N. that ran out of the country after one bombing? UN agencies threaten to quit war-torn Afghanistan guardian.co.uk The UN yesterday warned that its agencies will pull out of Afghanistan if American and other Western troops cannot stem a tide of violence that has recently seen 15 aid workers murdered by resurgent Taliban fighters, and most foreign aid workers withdrawn to Kabul. US military officials in Afghanistan admitted the Taliban had adopted the same devastating roadside bombing technique employed by guerrillas in Iraq, from which the UN has already mostly withdrawn. 'Countries that are committed to supporting Afghanistan cannot kid themselves and go on expecting us to work in unacceptable security conditions,' said the UN's senior representative in Kabul, Lakhdar Brahimi. cont'd.....

To: greenspirit who wrote (19811)	12/14/2003 12:50:01 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 793691

The fact is that the media has consistently exaggerated the extent of the problems in Iraq. This is not to suggest that I think that the planning for the post-war was stellar--it wasn't. However, I think that the swiftness of the victory had a lot to do with many of the failings. It would be hypocritical to suggest that anyone knew that the war would go so well or end as swiftly as it did; the postwar period was upon much more quickly than anyone anticipated, hence some (but not all) of the difficulties.