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To: tejek who wrote (274716)	2/27/2006 8:28:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573538

I am happy for the girls. Big deal. They will not save the country. Depends on what you mean by save. It will still be a very poor country and life will be rough there, but increasing school enrolments from 900k to 5 million is huge. Roads have been rebuilt, including one linking the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif in the north to Kabul in the center, Kandahar in the south and Herat in the west. And one of those roads has been destroyed. These are superficial remedies. Re-establishing internal communications in the country is far from superficial. Its crucial, as is the increasing effort in education. With such things happening progress gets made. Afghanistan is starting so deep in a whole that it can make a lot of progress and still be deep in a whole from our perspective but things are already better, which is one of the reasons million of Afghan refugees have returned. Yup. In reality, Karzai controls Kabul and that's it. He has a fair amount of control over more than just Kabul, even if his control over most of the country is very weak. Some 4.4 million refugees have returned home. Thousands of militiamen who fought against the Taliban or Soviet troops in the 1980s have been demobilized, while 33,000 soldiers have been recruited and trained for a new army." Again. So what? Again a large improvement. Afghanistan isn't going to be Luxemburg. The improvements are compared to its previous dire state.