Patricia (R) and Karen Williams, mother and sister of Gayle Williams respectively, attend the funeral ceremony for Gayle at the British cemetery in Kabul October 26, 2008. Two Taliban gunmen on a motorcycle killed Gayle Williams, a British aid worker in the Afghan capital on Monday, accusing her of spreading Christian propaganda. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN)A Commentary From The China Post:
While Iraq has stabilized significantly due to a successful shift in U.S. strategy, including the “s
urge” of American troops, many of the challenges once found there have regrettably migrated to another hotspot: Afghanistan.
Today, Afghanistan is entrenched in a slugfest with terrorists, insurgents and drug traffickers. The country is struggling to embrace democracy, develop economically and build a sustainable civil society following three decades of turmoil.
But while Afghanistan is not in as bad a shape as Iraq was in the summer of 2006 when Iraq was in a dangerous, seemingly irreversible downward spiral, Afghanistan has not yet completely escaped that fate.
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