Afghanistan has countervailing merits despite all its horrors
Among other things, it has taught that the priority of war fought among the people is to provide those people with lasting security. From that grows state stability along with public confidence that national institutions offer better protection and opport
OTTAWA—Lessons Afghanistan teaches are uniformly hard. Last week's is that elections are a poor measure of progress in the vexed process of rebuilding a failed state.
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