NYT: Endangered Peace In Afghanistan

[wellst0nev0ter]

What? Could the snobs at the Times be going over the hump in their coddling of the chimp in chief?

Afghanistan is paying a heavy price for the Bush administration's reluctant and miserly approach to nation-building. The central government is bankrupt and powerless. The economy remains inert. And now the Taliban appears to be making a deadly and alarming comeback, just 21 months after American-backed forces drove it from power. For weeks the White House has been hinting that more coherent, better-financed policies are on the way. They are badly needed.

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Go read the rest, it's well worth it

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/03/opinion/03WED3.html