Posted on 06/17/2005 8:11:54 AM PDT by manny613
One of the reasons for the success we've enjoyed in Afghanistan is that our viceroy — pardon me, ambassador — there, who saw the country through the founding of a democratic government, was not just a serious thinker and a skilled diplomat but also spoke the language and understood the culture. Why? Because Zalmay Khalilzad is an Afghan-born Afghan American.
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This same artricle appears under the title "English Spoken Here" in another thread - taken from the NY Daily News.
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