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...innocent people are becoming victims of careless operations of NATO and international forces.' HAMID KARZAI, Afghan President, on the increasing number of civilian deaths from NATO- and U.S.-led air strikes in his country. In the past three weeks, more than 90 civilians have been killed in aerial bombings aimed at resurgent Taliban forces in the south and east of the country...
...fourth such incident in less than two weeks, and while it heralds remarkable progress in the coalition's fight against the insurgency in the south, it also indicates an alarming spike in civilian casualties that many in this battle torn nation are calling unacceptable. President Karzai, in a vehement denunciation of the mounting civilian death toll, lambasted the international troops at a press conference Saturday, saying that this latest incident was yet another example of foreign troops using disproportionate force...
...Afghanistan, we had started from the ground up, allowing the various political groups to legitimize themselves, then building toward a central, representational government. In Iraq, the process couldn't have been more different. We never had a conference comparable to the Afghan Loya Jirga that produced a leader, Hamid Karzai, around whom the country could coalesce. We had won the war; we had the guns, the tanks, the soldiers, and the air power. We were in charge, and by God, we knew what was best. Alas, what too many people in the U.S. government were convinced would be best...
...appearances are deceiving. This onetime deputy governor of an Iraqi province and two-time author isn't garbed as a City banker in order to project upper-class Britishness, but, he says, "to show respect" to Afghans. In Stewart's latest incarnation, as President Hamid Karzai's appointed reviver of traditional Afghan architecture and crafts, earning the respect of the locals is crucial-especially because the work must take place in a war-ravaged country with no real peace on the horizon. How can preservation be achieved amid so much destruction...
...school is based on Prince Charles' School of Traditional Arts in London, which so impressed President Karzai on a visit to the British capital that he decided to set up something similar in Kabul. Stewart-who while in Iraq had set up a carpentry school and helped refurbish an old bazaar-was asked to launch it and arrived in Kabul in 2005. Under Stewart's stewardship, the school has become a substantial development program that provides jobs and has improved the lives of the 700 residents of Murad Khane. "I wouldn't see the point of teaching this stuff unless...