Letters to the Editor
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Continuity?
If you believe there are some bilateral agreements with the Central Asian countries bordering Afghanistan, please elaborate. This administration is all about gunboat diplomacy, and nothing in the record suggests otherwise. Your policy views seems close to Barama's. who prefers transferring the animus of the war on terror back to the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where one has always felt that Karzai was a puppet, a Bollywood imposter, who dare not stray more than a few blocks from his office in the capital. No one really knows what the Taliban is doing, some say they were instrumental in destroying the opium trade, and a lot of television sets as well. Now they are accused of being some sort of criminal gang. Who can really say? Fundamentalists who traffic in drugs to fund the global war on terror, the truth isn't being well served by these speculative gestures.
Is Charlie Wilson's War, a feel good film about American hubris at Christmas time, probably. There is reason to question everything you said, except the sorry behavior of the Democrats who campaign on the slogan of continuity. Continuity?