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http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Assessment_Redacted_092109.pdf?hpid=topnews)

Assesssment with redactions

[angkor]

Thanks for posting the actual assessment.

After a quick skim:

As expected, the mission is an odd one: “disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda” through “stability in Afghanistan.”

No though killing or destroying, but through nation-building.

1) The opium problem: Afghan supplies 95 percent of the world’s opium supply with about $2 billion annual revenue **at the source farmer level** and is a (”the” ??) source of revenue for the Taliban. yet it is discussed in ONE paragraph in 66 pages.

2) Pakistan: Maybe I skimmed too fast. Couldn’t find any discussion of Pakistan at all, which is the exact and precise analog of Cambodia/Laos during Vietnam.