[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Mr. Furlong might have channeled money away from a program intended to provide American commanders with information about Afghanistan’s social and tribal landscape, and toward secret efforts to hunt militants on both sides of the country’s porous border with Pakistan.

Trying to make a distinction between information about the Afghan "social and tribal landscape" and trying to identify "militants" along the "porous border" is nonsensical.

What does the NYT imagine our military WANTS information on the "social and tribal landscape" for? To write an article for the Worldbook encyclopedia?

It's to IDENTIFY OUR ENEMIES, jackasses.

[Cindy]

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