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Some 38,000 Afghan soldiers have been trained by U.S. and coalition forces since 2003, and many already accompany NATO troops on the ground. The U.S. and the international community have launched an ambitious plan to nearly double the size of the Afghan National Army (ANA), to 70,000; to build a fully functioning police force of 82,000; and to lay the groundwork for a National Afghan Air Corps by December 2008. But building a strong army in the middle of a war is a difficult undertaking. Much of the Afghan corps is young, illiterate and prone to desertion...
...that the DREAM Act could get a vote in both chambers as early as this fall. "This is really allowing the movement to crystallize," says Jose Luis Marantes, youth organizer for the Florida Immigrant Coalition who is working alongside Juan's friends in Washington this week. Diaz-Balart spokesperson Ana Carbonell concurred: "It's allowed us to show Congress the human face of those whom we're trying to assist...
Roya Fouladi, SANTA ANA, CALIF...
...This is not the first time this kind of free-range lunacy has been visited upon me. Indeed, it happens, oh, once a week to each of us who post on Swampland (Karen Tumulty, Jay Carney and Ana Marie Cox are the others). A reasonable reader might ask, Why are the left-wing bloggers attacking you? Aren't you pretty tough on the Bush Administration? Didn't you write a few months ago that George W. Bush would be remembered as one of the worst Presidents in history? And why on earth does any of this matter...
...Signs Off Ana Marie Cox must have been kidding in her piece "No More Imus for Me" [April 23]. Like everyone else who appeared on the Imus program, she knew what the show was about. Everyone was happy to use the program for self-promotion but wants to claim ignorance now that there is some heat. Imus was on the air for nearly 30 years doing the same routine. His comments about the Rutgers women were indefensible, and he apologized for them. MSNBC and CBS should have shown some courage and said that censorship is unacceptable. Joseph Buonpastore, Wayne...