Hamas and the Taliban--Winning Hearts and Minds on a Budget, While We Piss Away Billions

Just when you think every possible outrage has been committed in the name of George Bush's policy of pre-emptive war, something more comes from the blind-side to knock the wind from an already winded American experience.

Just when you think every possible outrage has been committed in the name of George Bush's policy of pre-emptive war, something more comes from the blind-side to knock the wind from an already winded American experience.

Pamela Constable writes for the Washington Post Foreign Service. They still have a foreign service, what with all the downsizing and cost-cutting? Apparently so, and it makes evident why we so badly need those incredibly important bureaus in America's print media.

Harsh Season Overwhelms Afghans
Hopes for Progress Battered by War, Weather, Economy and Regional Tension

Tuesday, February 12, 2008; A11

KABUL -- If all the winter woes of Afghanistan could be said to concentrate in one spot, it might be the wind-swept, frozen field on the outskirts of Kabul know…