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Yes.
The Pentagon definitely doesn't censor his email, but he's an officer in charge of a unit. He's not the censoring type, so his troops probably have quite a bit of leeway. I don't know if the Pentagon has a mail censoring policy in place.
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> > Oh and the Army ain't gonna do doodoo about the
> >heroin shipments; the Afghan farmers are running a classic scam on US
> >AID and the Pentagon.
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> Yes, it certainly looks like that. But I think progress in Afghanistan may have to be measured over a decade rather than by year. That Taliban regime is gone is by itself a big step forward for Afghans and their neighbours (eg Kashmir is barely 350 miles from Kabul).
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> Ulhas
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It is going to take a very long time. When I asked my friend whether the US will have a contingent there for as long as, say, Korea, he says he doesn't know. Right now they want to hand off as much to NATO as possible and control the purse strings on infrastructure development. He says their focus is on roads, schools, water/sewage systems and health clinics. When I tell him of Colin Powell's quip that "capital is a coward" re investment, his answer is "yeah, well, I wish it weren't true but I doubt Afghanistan will be an economic powerhouse in the 22nd century."
Ian