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Originally Posted by akv
By my read the Robinson piece was like a lot of what passes for journalism these days, defeatist and poorly researched. For example he focuses on the corruption of the Afghan regime, from what I've read folks over there care only about their tribe, it's Afghanistan not Canada, the regimes in that part of the world are always corrupt and unstable. Other than an overall defeatist tone, was there anything he mentioned that wasn't known? The terrain is tough, Pakistan is a shaky ally, the Karzai regime is corrupt, Obama is wuss, and reducing troop levels can't help. .
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I think that summed up the article pretty well. Most "journalists" don't have a clue about that region of the world because they haven't been there. To them it's inconceivable that the majority of the inhabitants don't follow, or even know, the politics of the country.