Kabul Today

This recent first-hand experience of Afghanistan after OEF provides a very interesting contrast with the doom and gloom of the US/Brit media:

"Despite dozens of missteps, made mostly with good intentions, it has been the understated but forceful American influence, not the UN and the hundreds of NGOs, that has taken the major gambles here. The Americans have displayed admirable flexibility in altering tactics and strategy when necessary and achieved this dicey, delicate transition."

Please read all of it