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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Understanding Tribalism In Afghanistan
Posted by: Duane R. Patterson at 4:21 PM
Hugh continues fiction thriller week with Steven Pressfield today, author of Gates of Fire, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Killing Rommel, which will be discussed at length in the last two hours of the show today.

But in the first hour, Hugh and Steven will talk about the part of the world the Marines are getting to know real well - Afghanistan. Steven has done a lot of research on the Pashtunwali lifestyle practiced by the millions of tribesmen living along the Pakistani-Afghan border, and has come away with some insights he has compiled in a series of five video op-eds which you can view on his website here.

Each video in the series is about five minutes long, is shot very professionally, and is something every American interested in foreign policy should watch. It is wise to study the ways of those you are fighting, and Steven Pressfield has made it easy to do so.

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Cicero writes: Wednesday, July, 22, 2009 10:57 AM
CATO institute on Afghanistan
"But after nearly eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, the war's strategic rationale still remains tenuous. Central Asia holds little intrinsic strategic value to the United States, and America's security will not necessarily be endangered even if an oppressive regime takes over a contiguous fraction of Afghan territory. Given Afghanistan's numerous challenges, and the fact that a protracted guerrilla war will weaken the United States militarily and economically, the fundamental objective should be to get out of Afghanistan."

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10369
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Cicero writes: Wednesday, July, 22, 2009 10:41 AM
Progress in Afghanistan
US Bombs Poppy Seeds in Afghanistan ‘Show of Force’. Helmand Bombings Part of 'Hearts and Minds' Campaign, State Dept. Insists

"In what is seen as an enormous show of force in the ongoing battle between man and poppy seed, the United States military has dropped several tons of explosives on a field in the Helmand Province, destroying mounds of poppy seeds which had been gathered there."

Read the entire story at:

http://tinyurl.com/m8la8k

Article includes photo of the dreaded poppy seed bagel.
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