The kind of tragic, urgent attention Afghanistan is getting now is very clearly the result of the spectacular and exhausted inattention it got for about the last 9 years.
Nick Paton Walsh
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Nick Paton Walsh
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CNN Chief International Security Correspondent - on same address @ threads
Joined September 2011
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