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DOD Report (unclassified) on Afghanistan (not good)
report covers the period ending March 31 2010
The continuing decline in stability in Afghanistan, described in the last report, has leveled off in many areas over the last three months of this reporting period. While the overall trend of violence throughout the country increased over the same period a year ago, much of this can be ascribed to increased International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) activity. Polls consistently illustrate that Afghans see security as improved from a year ago.
Interesting.
At the same time violence is sharply above the seasonal average for the previous year -- an 87% increase from February 2009
to March 2010.
Of course violence is up.We have more troops there, the Taliban have more troops there, and our troops are more aggressively positioned. And yet Afghans say that security has improved, an apparent contradiction.

Posted by: lord garth 2010-05-17
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=296943