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Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:44 PM

Published 11/03/2009 by CNN

Fareed Zakaria

Analyzing Afghanistan; Global Competitiveness Report

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The Canadian way to do counterinsurgency

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Quotes

...times this -- "You feel in Afghanistan that every part of you is being tested."

Fareed Zakaria [CNN - 11/03/2009]

BRET STEVENS, "WALL STREET JOURNAL: That's exactly the point. And Rory made a point in an article saying some of the counterinsurgency manual reads like a World Bank document. You can go too far in emphasizing the development, and you don't need to achieve of maximum objectives in terms of good governance, in terms of development, in order to deal with the kind of insurgency we have in Afghanistan."

Fareed Zakaria [CNN - 11/03/2009]

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Afghanistan by the numbers [Reuters - YouTube - 11/04/2009]

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