It's always tomorrow when things will be getting better in Afghanistan. The magic date when progress will be achieved has moved from August to November. Allied with the date change is a word change; we are now executing a program called "Cooperation for Kandahar" (note that it's cooperation "for", not cooperation "with") rather than a military operation to bring progress there.
A good part of the problem is our inability to do anything with President Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali. He has been running the province for five years and things have gotten worse, rather than better. Is this record a reason for the inhabitants to support his leading a "better" government?
We settled Helmand province earlier this year. Did we really succeed?
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