Reply #1: I heard this clown

[MrPrax]

on a radio report today--they left out the part about being sponsored by the Fraser Institute.

"My embassy just called me this morning and said that some of the demonstrators were saying that Afghanistan was better off under the Taliban," Omar Samad said Monday.

Again the 'strawman' technique--funny the demonstrators I saw on Saturday to never mentioned Af being better off with the Taliban. But with warlords like Dostrum and Hekmatyar being protected by our boys, does it really matter...

If you want to know what Canadian lives and money are going for...

Here's a slide show courtesy of RAWA
http://www.rawa.org/kab-jan05/build.htm

Good background provided by Cursor's current 4 part series on Afghanistan.
http://www.cursor.org/stories/emptyspace.html

Cursor's roundup page of Afghanistan related stories http://www.cursor.org/stories/archivistan.htm

Part 2 'Pulling the Rug' talks about the development rip-offs, the corruption, etc.

Good article from 2004--nicely footnoted: An Island Named Kabul: Trickle-Up Economics and Westernization in Karzai's Afghanistan