Sarah Chayes With an Update on Afghanistan
Monday, July 07, 2008
Former NPR correspondent Sarah Chayes lives and works in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where she’s founded a soapmaking company, Arghand, to help rebuild the war-torn country. Ms. Chayes updates us on the resurgence of the Taliban and the widespread corruption committed by the Karzai government.
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Comments [2]
As someone who spent two years in Afghanistan, I can tell you she is right on the money. We are totally screwing up what could have been a very positive mission.
Sarah Chayes warned us two or three years ago in the NY Times op ed that we were neglecting Afghanistan at our peril and theirs.
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