NYT: Lacking Money and Leadership, Push for Taliban Defectors Stalls

By , on September 7th, 2010

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The Afghan version of the Iraq Awakening – paying the opposition not to fight – is not working. There are few Taliban fighters taking the United States up on its offers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/world/asia/07taliban.html?hpw

Niamh Marnell

Niamh Marnell

Niamh Marnell earned a master's degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago where she examined organizations and power from the perspective of political science and sociology. You can follow her at http://twitter.com/NiamhMarnell.

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