An opportunity to wound Taliban

By Clifford D. May
Saturday, November 29, 2008 - Added 357d 23h ago

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“Afghanistan is the most foreign country in the world,” says William Wood, the American ambassador in Kabul. I ask if I may quote him on that. He hesitates, then says it’s all right, then adds: “It’s a ferociously foreign country.”

Mountainous, landlocked and remote, populated by legendary warriors - Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara and Uzbek - historically rich but economically dirt poor, it has been in a state of turmoil for almost 30 years, since the Soviet invasion of 1980.

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Clifford D. May is president of Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which focuses on terrorism. Talk back at cliff@defenddemocracy.org.

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