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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.
Listen to Leonard's conversation with Sarah Chayes from December 2007
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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.
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.
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