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...Perhaps it should. While the death toll was low compared with other recent attacks, the bomber - Shamsullah Rehman, according to the Taliban spokesman who took credit for the blast - was able to penetrate the very center of Kabul. He detonated his Toyota Corolla in front of the German embassy and across the street from a U.S. military base on one of the most well-guarded roads in the capital. The attack took place less than two months after a similar bombing in front of the U.S. embassy that killed four, and just over a year after an audacious commando-style...
...Bush Administration's strategy for Afghanistan was largely defined by its absence of one. Once the Taliban were defeated, U.S. troops remained here in a mostly counterterrorism capacity that ultimately proved self-defeating. Terrorists cannot be wiped out if the factors that lead to the creation of new terrorists - indoctrination, fear, poverty and lack of education, foreign influences and sanctuaries across the border - are not also eliminated. Despite a steady increase of troops in Afghanistan from both the U.S. and NATO, the Taliban insurgency, all but defeated in 2001, has grown in strength and capacity. More of the same...
...Seven years and billions of dollars have brought Afghanistan no closer to the peaceful democracy that George W. Bush promised at the beginning of the war. Instead, the country more closely resembles the warlord-led kleptocracy of the 1990s that led to the rise of the Taliban in the first place. Corruption is the defining characteristic of the central government, and President Hamid Karzai is largely seen as an American puppet unable to rein in the excesses of government ministers or even his own family. And he's not even a good puppet - Karzai routinely and publicly berates his foreign...
Britain's Prince Harry knows how to party. He can shoot a gun, guzzle beer through a funnel, ride a horse and fight the Taliban. The British Royal most frequently in trouble - his reputation was recently tarnished by a video of him calling fellow soldiers by racial slurs - is known for his wild attitude, disdain for the media (his mother was Princess Diana, so can you really blame him?) and his fierce desire to live a "normal" life. But how normal can your life be when your grandmother is the Queen...
...Harry fought Taliban forces in Afghanistan for 77 days, making him the first member of the Royal Family to serve in a combat zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, flew helicopters during the Falklands War. The British military tried to keep Harry's presence a secret out of concern for his safety - going so far as to broker a "blackout" deal with the British media, who promised not to reveal the prince's location - but the The Drudge Report and other foreign media outlets revealed the information, forcing his commanders to pull him from duty in early...