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...Security Assistance Force are doing what they can against difficult odds. The language and tactics of counterinsurgency warfare are universal here: secure the population, help them build their communities. There are occasional victories: the Taliban leader of Musa Qala, in northern Helmand, switched sides and has become an effective local governor. But the incremental successes are reversible - schools are burned by the Taliban, police officers are murdered - because of a monstrous structural problem that defines the current struggle in Afghanistan...
...certain logic to that. The Taliban and al-Qaeda can't base themselves in Afghanistan if something resembling a stable, secure nation-state exists there. But the mission was also historically implausible: Afghanistan has never had a strong central government. It has been governed for thousands of years by local and regional tribal coalitions. The tribes have often been at one another's throats - a good part of the current "Taliban" uprising is nothing more than standard tribal rivalries juiced by Western arms and opium profits - except when foreigners have invaded the area, in which case the Afghans have united...
...reported yet another outbreak of the virus at one of the city's largest poultry farms after 60 chickens were found dead. Putting the city on "serious alert" for further outbreaks, Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health York Chow Yat-ngok announced a 21-day shutdown of the local poultry industry, suspending all live chicken imports from mainland China, which supplies about half its live wholesale markets, and culling 80,000 birds from farms near the outbreak's locus. York said Tuesday that there were no reports of humans sickened by the virus, and that the government...
...even effective vaccination may only forestall outbreaks of the tenacious virus. "Vaccination is recommended WHO policy, but it's not a panacea," Cordingley says. Farmers and local governments around the region still need to be vigilant about testing birds for the virus and keeping wild birds from infecting poultry farms. "The vaccine by itself doesn't work. You can't just vaccinate and walk away...
...John says there is an absence of a system for "tagging" intelligence inputs in a way that signals their relative seriousness and priority. Following the Mumbai attacks, all security agencies concerned - from the coast guard to the navy to the local police - claimed that the intelligence inputs they had received were not "actionable...