A funeral in Marja, Afghanistan, was attended by villagers during ongoing fighting in the area between American Marines and Taliban fighters. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Toggling Between Fighting and Outreach in Afghanistan -- The New York Times
However the Afghan war is faring over all, across the wide and varied expanse of Afghanistan, with all of its political and cultural complexity, one thing is abundantly clear: toggling between fighting and outreach can create head-spinning scenes. Some of these scenes underline the difficulties inherent in a counterinsurgency doctrine that mixes lopsided violence with attempts to make nice. But they also simultaneously demonstrate that the efforts to follow the doctrine far from Kabul, out on remote ground, have become a central part of how the war is waged, even as the merits of the doctrine are quietly debated.
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