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avmoor discovered 5 weeks ago- When Canada's conservative-friendly Globe And Mail questions glowing government proclamations that Afghanistan is relatively stable and NATO troops are in command is it time to reassess the mission? Creating safe colonial Green Zones is exactly what happened in Vietnam. But the population surrounding those Zones were not content with being occupied by any foreign power. Why would it be different now? From the page: "KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - More districts of Kandahar are controlled by the Taliban than by the Afghan government, according to a U.S. assessment that casts doubt on Canada's upbeat view of the war. A detailed analysis by U.S. security officials shows that foreign troops and their local allies hold sway over the core, highly populated districts of Kandahar, but the zone of government control remains a small part of the vast territory assigned to Canadian responsibility two years ago. The assessment divides Kandahar's districts into four categories: contested, Taliban controlled, locally controlled, and government controlled. Only four of 16 districts were classified as government controlled. The Taliban were described as controlling six districts. The rest are held by local tribes or warlords, or they are battlefields with nobody clearly dominating. The study was completed in January, but the findings were made available only recently to The Globe and Mail as the claims of progress by Canadian officials have increasingly contrasted with U.S. leaders' statements of concern about Afghanistan."
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