Afghanistan: Danger of Failed State
Several new studies have just appeared warning that things could go very badly very easily in Afghanistan, which could turn into a failed state. One bad side effect, a British study concluded, would be the discrediting of NATO.
Barney Rubin weighs in on what could be done from Kabul.
An Australian study thinks Australian troops will still be needed 15 years from now in Afghanistan, and that the central government still will not have control of some of the Pushtun regions where al-Qaeda was strong in the past.
Today's news from Afghanistan includes a suicide bombing and the finding of decapitated bodies.
posted by Juan Cole @ 1/31/2008 12:20:00 AM
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/sentenced-to-death-afghan-who-dared-to-read-about-womens-rights-775972.html
This is the sad story of a young scholar, Sayed Pervez Kambaksh sentenced to death by an Islamic court in Afghanistan for downloading a report from the internet. He was accused of blasphemy after he downloaded a report from a Farsi website which stated that Muslim fundamentalists who claimed the Koran justified the oppression of women had misrepresented the views of the prophet Mohamed. Karzai’s Afghan Senate passed a motion confirming the death sentence. This is a serious crime in post-Taliban Afghanistan? Why is this not appearing in the USA blogs and print?
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