More on Afghanistan from my favorite combat reporter

FRONT PAGE: "A Blast, an Ambush and a Sprint to Escape a Taliban Kill Zone: Briefly Pinned Down, G.I.'s Fight Back, Then Grieve," by C.J. Chivers, New York Times, 20 April 2009.

No comment. Just a great read.

Chivers is simply the best, in my opinion.

Comments

[Seth]

I read this last week and the paragraphs that stand out the most to me-"The Korangalis have fought, the officers say, in part because they support the Taliban and in part because they are loggers and the Afghan government banned almost all timber cutting, putting local men out of work.

Korangal Outpost itself symbolizes the dispute. It occupies a former sawmill, and the mill’s displaced owner is a main organizer of the insurgency. The Taliban pay the best wages in the valley now, the officers said. "

I wonder what the solution is, could it be to allow logging again?