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Afghanistan: Six years on

Monday, August 6th, 2007 @ 19:04 UTC

by Ben Paarmann

Countries:: Afghanistan
Topics:: War & Conflict

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Six years after its invasion of Afghanistan, the United States has announced it will curb aid to the war-torn country. Bonnie Boyd thinks this does not make much sense at all; and Joshua Foust again disagrees with The Economist, arguing that things in Afghanistan are not as bad as they have been for much of the past thirty years.

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