A roundup of good news from Afghanistan

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A roundup of good news from Afghanistan
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Mon, 09-20-2004 - 5:33am

For those who maintain/assert/believe that nothing has happened in terms of progress in Afghanistan and/or that the Afghan-cause has been abandoned...(and therefore IMHO are too lazy to lóók for the news-facts)....


I chose to cut&paste the entire article, because not everyone has 'easy access' to :




OpinionJournal
OpinionJournal


(NB: Due to the length of the article, I needed to cut it into 13 posts.) 


http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005642


Sept. 9, Three Years On
A roundup of the past month's good news from Afghanistan.

BY ARTHUR CHRENKOFF
Monday, September 20, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT


The third anniversary of a significant event had passed recently without much notice or commentary, not unexpectedly overshadowed by another, more prominent third anniversary. On Sept. 9, 2001, two al Qaeda suicide bombers impersonating foreign journalists assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance. Rightly so, this event came to be seen as a prelude to Sept. 11, the opening shot in al Qaeda's renewed offensive against the West as well as its enemies within Afghanistan.

Three years can make a huge difference. The presidential campaign in Afghanistan officially commenced on Sept. 7. A country that for a quarter century has been successively ravaged by the Soviet occupation, a bloody civil war and a theocratic dictatorship is now embarking on its very own democratic journey. That is a great achievement and a cause for celebration.

Getting to this point has not been easy, but Afghanistan slowly and steadily continues to achieve normalcy, mostly out of the media spotlight. Here are some stories of hope and promise that you might have missed over the past month while the mainstream media continued to focus on violence and mayhem, or to ignore Afghanistan altogether.


Arthur Chrenkoff is an Australian blogger. He writes at chrenkoff.blogspot.com. <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SECTION />


(to be continued)






Edited 9/20/2004 6:37 am ET ET by djie

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Mon, 09-20-2004 - 6:26am

Djie

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Mon, 09-20-2004 - 6:29am

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Mon, 09-20-2004 - 8:54am
I think you should have titled this thread "Afghanispam" ; )

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Mon, 09-20-2004 - 8:57am
Why?

Djie

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Mon, 09-20-2004 - 9:31am
I was making a joke about your format. Why give information in one post, when you can spread it out over 15? It was just a joke. Alhough I did think it was weird that all your info is from the Opinion Journal.
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Mon, 09-20-2004 - 9:57am

Ah ok, mý turn to stand corrected eh?Bag Head


It's "just"

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