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...part of the recent rage at what right-wing commentators decry as the big-spending, socialistic government of the first African-American President? Al Cross, a former reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal who covered the area for 30 years, believes that the conditions underlying the murder go back much farther and are much deeper - and more local - than the recent spate of ire. (Read TIME's cover story on Glenn Beck...
Retired Kentucky state trooper Gilbert Acciardo, who worked with Sparkman at the elementary school, told the Associated Press that he'd cautioned Sparkman about the Census work. "I told him on more than one occasion, based on my years in the state police ... when you go into those counties, be careful, because people are going to perceive you different than they do elsewhere." But Roy Silver, a sociology professor at Southeast Community College in Harlan County, told the wire service that he doesn't think "distrust of government is any more or less here than anywhere else in the country...
...NATO allies to draw down troop levels. Foreign trainers admit privately that for the next few years, the Afghan security forces are woefully ill prepared to cope with the rising Taliban insurgency. For a monthly salary of $150, the loyalty of an Afghan cop will only go so far when his outpost at some bleak crossroads is ambushed by the Taliban. And while the Taliban forces are often highly motivated, there may not be that many Afghans willing to die to defend the Karzai government. (See TIME's pictures of the fight for Afghanistan's Kunar province...
...umpteen warlords and trigger-happy commanders to usually - although not always - settle their grudges politically rather than with arms. Afghanistan may be a mess by the measure of politics and security, but its jails are no longer filled with thousands of political prisoners; in cities and towns, girls go to schools and universities; a feisty free press flourishes, and there are plenty of new millionaires whose fortunes were not necessarily made from trafficking opium, but from bricks and mortar, cell-phone towers and trade...
...Karzai and his Western backers are losing ground to the Taliban, as insurgents fill the void created by the failure to bring progress to the rural areas. And as bad as Karzai's government of patronage may be, part of the blame for the lack of progress must also go to the international donors who concentrated on mega projects carried out by foreign corporations and their armies of gun-toting security contractors. Tapping into a seemingly limitless river of funds became an end in itself, rather than completing the actual bridge or road they were supposed to build...