> Financial Times - September 27, 2001
>
> The folly of quick action in Afghanistan It would be a mistake for the
> US to undertake a military strike before establishing plans for a
> transitional Afganistan
>
> By ASHRAF GHANI
A good article. Ghani also contributed, along with Ahmed Rashid and Barnett Rubin and others, to a very good long background article with the deceptively boring title of:
Afghanistan: Reconstruction and Peace in a Regional Framework
The first three sections are especially good. It's available on the net in .pdf format at the Swiss Peace Foundation. Go to
http://www.swisspeace.ch/html/navigation/fr_publications.html
and click on the "Koff Peacebuilding Report" link to bring it up.
Michael __________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com