<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7f3d3dc1-690b-433e-a4e7-53f8666050c8/A2968360-9258-4CAB-8F3E-160FA3155253/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1906" href="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1906" style="font-size: 11px;">www.vetvoice.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1906"><H2 class="author">by: <A class="author" href="http://www.vetvoice.com/userDiary.do?personId=4">Brandon Friedman</A></H2> <H3 class="diaryTimestamp"> <I>Wed Sep 17</I></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1906">Spencer Ackerman--who is currently embedded with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan--has a great <A href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/6110/hedtk-dektk">piece</A> in today's <I>Washington Independent</I> about the way in which Afghan corruption is killing our ability to make progress.  Key quote: <P></P><BLOCKQUOTE>As Robertson said earlier that day, the police and the army are the only long-term strategy for securing Afghanistan. <STRONG>The U.S. troops have two missions: to hunt down the Taliban and Al Qaeda elements, and to prepare the Afghan security forces to take over security duties. Today, the second mission appeared to imperil the first.</STRONG></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>You can read the entire article <A href="http://www.washingtonindependent.com/6110/hedtk-dektk">here</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1906"><DIV><B> This doesn't look good </B> (<A href="http://www.vetvoice.com/viewRating.do?rateCommentId=12225"><SPAN id="rating12225">0.00 / 0</SPAN></A>) </DIV> <DIV> <A href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/2971811/New-breed-of-Taliban-replaces-old-guard.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...</A></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A2968360-9258-4CAB-8F3E-160FA3155253/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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