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...That number needs to increase. While elementary enrollment in Afghanistan reached 7 million this year, there are only 60,000 university places. Ultimately Afghanistan has to build its own educational institutions that can graduate qualified professionals, including teachers. But while it does that, the U.S., and its international partners, can help expedite the process by launching an international scholarship program. Not just to the U.S., as the Fulbright program does, but around the world. Yes, there is a possibility that scholarship students will abscond or seek asylum - the program will have to take those risks into account. But every year...
...Read "The U.S. in Afghanistan: The Longest...
...pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
...best thing we can do is increase security and intelligence--but in a way that makes sense. Having to sit for part of a flight will simply mean an adjustment in plans for a terrorist. And if we focus too much on Afghanistan, where our intelligence agencies say there are only 100 or so al-Qaeda operatives, we run the risk of taking our eyes off the prize and playing into the hands of the forces we are trying to defeat...
DEFNE BAYRAK, wife of the double agent who killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence officer in a Dec. 30 suicide bombing on an American base in Afghanistan...